Re: Nobody noes it _yet_

From: Richard Henry (rphenry_at_home.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:35:29 -0700

"Herman Family" <celcaps@frontiernets.net/without_any_s/> wrote in message
news:XUtOc.1677$i35.1515@news01.roc.ny...

> Kindly also remember that your audience here is used to the difference
> between mass and weight, and it isn't unusual to find the terms for these
> interchanged improperly in the "real" world, we do try to keep them
correct
> in physics.

There are a few exceptions.

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