On 05/04/17 09:50, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> On 04/04/2017 23:36, Mike Fleming wrote:
>> In article , Dennis Lee
>> Bieber  writes:
>>
>>>     And miles per gallon makes a more meaningful measure to me than
>>> liters
>>> per km. {I have half a tank [10 gallons]: how far will that get me? Lot
>>> easier to do 10 * MPG than to work out an inverse [approximating 4l per
>>> gal] 40/l/km}
>>
>> But if you want to know how much petrol it will take to do the x mile
>> trip you're just about to do, the calculation is a simple one. You
>> just have to remember that a mile is about 1.6km.
>>
>
> Two and a quarter pounds of jam
> Weighs about a kilogramme.
>
> Two mega pigs and half a ram
> Weighs about a gigagramme.
>
> If centigrade confuses you,
> And, yes, it often might,
> nine fifths of C plus thirty-two
> Will give you Fahrenheit.
>
> Can you wait for me to tell you what is two ohms?
> Half a mho ...
>
> What is yellow and always points to the north?
> A magnetic banana.
>
> Joking apart, any interest in the Raspberry Pi in this NG?
>
>
>
Mary had a tin cow.
She milked it with a spanner.
The milk came out in shilling tins
And small ones, for a tanner.

Now translate that into decimal currency using a Pi.


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