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Post by mischa » February 17th, 2007, 12:36 am

My biology teacher enjoys telling us random bits of information.

Yesterday we learned what a myriameter is. It's 10,000 meters.

Now we have a new word for our 10ks!
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Post by Ben Rea » February 17th, 2007, 1:13 am

ha, thats cool. thanks for the info :D
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Post by Citroen » February 17th, 2007, 6:18 am

mischa wrote: Now we have a new word for our 10ks!
We now have an ancient, old, disused, deprecated word for 10K.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_unit_prefix
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Post by Snail Space » February 17th, 2007, 9:59 am

mischa wrote:a myriameter is ... 10,000 meters
10K takes fewer characters!
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Post by lt_gustavsen » February 17th, 2007, 11:23 am

Sorry for posting in the womens section, but this was very interesting. I cheeked out a little more about the topic, found a carton of a runner with a goal for 10.000m here.
Another nice site is this.

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Post by Bob S. » February 17th, 2007, 2:51 pm

Citroen wrote:
mischa wrote: Now we have a new word for our 10ks!
We now have an ancient, old, disused, deprecated word for 10K.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_unit_prefix
The Swedes might object to your message.

I have no objections to it , but then I share some of the characteristics of the word.

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Post by mischa » February 17th, 2007, 3:41 pm

Citroen wrote:
mischa wrote: Now we have a new word for our 10ks!
We now have an ancient, old, disused, deprecated word for 10K.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_unit_prefix
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