Re: Hubble constant?

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From: Mcirvin
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 03:33

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bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:

>[...] but a lot of people use the awful construction

>H_0 = 100 h km/s/Mpc , where 0.5 ~< h ~< 1.0

>which accounts for all the little h^-1 's I see in astro papers
>(unless it was something I drank).

Ack!  You'd think they'd use another letter out of consideration
for the quantum mechanists. :)

At least it's not barred.

-- 
Matt McIrvin  mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu 
"Robber bands stretched across the land, snapping up ill-gotten loot."
                                      -- "The Lone Stranger and Porky"

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