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[email protected] LoogyPicker@gmail.com is offline
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Default Deep into trivial thought....

On Aug 8, 2:16*am, "Tom G" wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message

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"Tim" wrote in message
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Did you ever wonder why the heater fan in your car operates from low-
medium-high, while a typical *box window fan operates from High-medium-
low?


I was just thinking about that.


hmm....


Oh yeah, I never figured out how 8 "bits" could equal $1.00 either...


We will all try to put your mind at ease:


With the fans, the car is a DC motor and the window is AC. * *Starting
torque is different.
As for the bits ..... isn't 2 "bits" a quarter?


Eisboch


And the reason for it being called 2 "bits" according to Wikipedia is:

"It is sometimes referred to as two bits because two bits of a Spanish
Reales coin, which was often used in the early years of the United States,
made up a quarter of a dollar's value"

Tom G



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Now you ruined it for Harry. He's the google master. He'll google it,
then come here and act like he had knowledge of it prior to googling.