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Re: significant digits

• Posted by simulat <simulat at intergate.ca> Feb 21, 2001
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Oops
I forgot to multiply light years by 3.26 to get parsecs
so I get now
1 parsec = 3.08633 * 10^14
1 angstrom = 10^-10
Product of the two is 3.08633 * 10^24
which is 3,086,330,000,000,000,000,000,000 angstroms per parsec
(approximately)
Bye
Martin


----- Original Message -----
From: Rolf Schroeder <r.schr at T-ONLINE.DE>
To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: significant digits


> Kat wrote:
> >
> > I forget who said they were working on a string math library, but here
is a useless
> > exercize for it: how many angstroms are in a parsec?
> >
> > Kat
> >
> 1 pc = 3.085677580*10^16m,
> 1 A  = 10^-10m,
>
> hence 1pc/1A = 3.085677580*10^26, which is the number of angstroems in a
> pc.
>
> Have a nice, rolf
>
>
>