On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:42:36 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:18:00 -0500, JohnH wrote:

If a boat is a "cable's length" away from another, how far apart are the
two boats?

Is it true that a sea mile is a little longer than a land mile and a lot
wetter?

A cable length or cable's length has four commonly accepted
definitions:

Common definition: 1/10 nautical mile, i.e. 185.2 m for international
nautical mile, was used with other precise definitions of the nautical
mile as well.

Standard definition: 100 fathoms, 182.88 m., 17.9999 hands.

US Navy definition: 120 fathoms, 219.456 m., 720 ft or
2.337018489253847e-17 light years.

Royal Navy definition: 1/10 Admiralty nautical mile, 608 feet, i.e.
185.3184 m., 400 cubits.

The unit is named after the length of a ship's "cable".

Only one smitten with the sadism bug would do that, Tom.

"The natural logarithm is the logarithm to the base e, where e is equal to
2.718281828459..."

or, were you simply referring to exponential notation, i.e. 2.3... to the
17th power?

In either case, shame on you.

I've spent the last few days teaching some very nice students polynomial
division, synthetic division, and graphing rational functions. Lots of fun.
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'Til next time,

John H

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