Re: Balls of Napoleon

From: hanson (hanson_at_quick.net)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:22:53 GMT

"Dirk Bruere at Neopax" <dirk@neopax.com> wrote in message
news:2rtq5cF1dgrrvU1@uni-berlin.de...
> >> [Uncle Al wrote:]
> >>>>>The Paris kilogram is solid platiridium alloy.
> >>>>>It is about the size of a 35 mm film cannister.
> >>>>
> >> [Maleki]
> >>>>39cm, I read it, in height and diameter. Halliday Resnick.
> >>>
> >>>[hanson]
> >>>Where? on what page and in which edition does it say "39cm"?
> >>
> >> [Maleki]
> >>"Fundamentals of Physics", by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker,
> >>Fifth Edition, page 7, caption to the picture of the
> >>standard mass says, "Figure 1-6 The international 1 kg
> >>standard of mass, a cylinder 39 cm in height and in
> >>diameter."
> >
> Mohammed Farooq wrote:
> > Please check other standard texts too before making such claims.
> > Though Halliday and Resnick write "cylinder 39 cm in height and in
> > diameter.", it is 39 mm high, as someone else has pointed out.
> > Follow this link
> > http://anthrax.physics.indiana.edu/~dzierba/Honors/Week1/Welcome.html
> > and read the "Honors Physics Problem".
> > "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 ? "
>
[Dirk]
> Since it's so close to 39.37 it must be inches and
> hence is really the standard metre...
>
[hanson]
Actually, it is MALEKI's standard meter,
by which he measures his small Peter.
He jerks and jerks and moans
while beating his Napoleons.
He does it on a public lawn
while being kissed by Farrakhan

ahahaha.....ahahanson

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