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Default Knots being phased out?

Peter Bennett wrote in
news.com:

You can use knots per hour to measure deceleration, too... :-)
(or should it be furlongs per fortnight? I always started the engine
when the Loran-gave an ETE of 99 hours.)



Yeah, but "deceleration" usually means we just ran aground and sailors
never like to think about "deceleration"...(c;

Larry
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