Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:24:59 -0800 (PST) | From | "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?i n Configure=2Ehelp=2E?= |
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, J.A. Magallon wrote: > And different length for sea and land 'miles'. Very natural...
nautical miles are defined as 1852 meters, the exact length of one second of longitude at the equator :)
Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com Software Engineer Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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