On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:41:47 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:

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I wish to heck I knew what a Newton is. All the really authoritative
modern texts are metric!

Try....

http://www.savardsoftware.com/masterconverter/

....a good little software converter that allows you to quickly change
variables to begin to grasp the units of measure.
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