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Article #69Re: Cray 1?
From: allen h. lutins
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:25
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:25
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In article <6683@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> liebgold@turing.seas.ucla.edu (Dan M. Liebgold) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.153046.11372@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:
>>In article <s103nINNs5u@agate.berkeley.edu> rsr@ocf.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport) writes:
>>>
>>>...Weighs around 500-600 pounds, 5" high, 3" wide, 2"
^ ^ ^
>>>deep.
>>
>>At 600 pounds with those dimensions, it would have a density of 20 pounds
>>per cubic inch. This seems a little on the high side. :-)
^^^
>
>don't you mean 20 pounds per cubic FOOT? Not quite as impressive, but still
>dense.
>
...you musta missed:
1) original poster mistakenly used " {inches} when ' {feet}
were certainly intended...
2) follow-up poster was taking those figures at face value
*sarcastically*...
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