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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: Novice question:  measuring speed
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.052828.20842@Think.COM>
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References: <645@ssdc?> <Mar.18.21.39.27.1991.17252@pilot.njin.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 05:28:28 GMT

In article <Mar.18.21.39.27.1991.17252@pilot.njin.net> gould@pilot.njin.net (Brian Jay Gould) writes:
>The only real way to measure the speed of a system is to drop
>it from a building and calculate 42 feet per second squared.

Wow, that's a fast computer!  I don't even expect the Connection Machine to
do better than 32 f/s^2.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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