Re: Balls of Napoleon

From: Maleki (maleki_m__at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:19:10 -0500

On 28 Sep 2004 10:24:25 -0700, Mohammed Farooq wrote:

> "Look at the figure caption for Fig. 1-6 in your text. It shows the 1
> kg standard of mass and describes it as a "cylinder 39 cm in height
> and in diameter."
>
> This has got to be crazy - right ? If it were a cylinder of these
> dimensions and had the density of water - how much would it weigh ? Do
> you think the author mixed up cm and mm ? "

When I'm reading it in a standard text of physics, first
thought that comes in my mind is that the cylinder is hollow
of course. If I'm to doubt, typographically, every figure
that the book gives how could I continue reading it? 

-- 
     sad sokhan migoft zAn darde kohan
     dar shekAyat ke nagoftam yek sokhan
                         "Mowlana"

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