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Article #852Re: What happens when you didn't get enough sleep...
From: Tim Ward
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:43
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:43
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"Michael Black" <et472@ncf.ca> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0905051913050.26146@darkstar.example.net... > On Tue, 5 May 2009, Jules wrote: > >> On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:21:03 -0700, UncleEnglish wrote: >>> Funny! Yet, 5 or 6 years ago, one of my students left her disssertaion >>> on a train, 70k words, 6 floppies on a train >> >> 70 thousand words and it needed 6 floppies? That's gotta be an MS format >> ;-) >> > "Words" is the key thing, he's surely not talking about the size of > storage. When counting Morse Code, one treated every five characters > as a word, but in real life, likely the words vary in size, and likely > for the worst. A word is five characters for a typist, too. -- Tim Ward - posting as an individual unless otherwise clear Brett Ward Limited - www.brettward.co.uk Cambridge Accommodation Notice Board - www.brettward.co.uk/canb Cambridge City Councillor
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