Subject: Re: Google calculator, largest values, beer
To: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
From: Andrew Brown <beer-drinking-fiend@tribeca.nyc.ny.us>
List: regional-nyc
Date: 10/13/2003 22:42:57
>>> i forgot to mention that there were rules.  you're not allowed
>>> simply to add si prefixes in order to reach higher orders of
>>> magnitude and the use of "square" or "cubic" is only allowed
>>> in order to achieve conformability of units.
>>
>>Doh.
>>
>>Back to the drawing board.
>
>Don't think that you used specifically si prefixes there, so it
>might still be valid.

he didn't, but he used cubic twice in order to get a bigger number,
not in order to achieve conformability of units.

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