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Random bits of information
Posted: February 17th, 2007, 12:36 am
by mischa
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!
Posted: February 17th, 2007, 1:13 am
by Ben Rea
ha, thats cool. thanks for the info

Re: Random bits of information
Posted: February 17th, 2007, 6:18 am
by Citroen
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
Re: Random bits of information
Posted: February 17th, 2007, 9:59 am
by Snail Space
mischa wrote:a myriameter is ... 10,000 meters
10K takes fewer characters!
Posted: February 17th, 2007, 11:23 am
by lt_gustavsen
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.
Lars
Re: Random bits of information
Posted: February 17th, 2007, 2:51 pm
by Bob S.
The Swedes might object to your message.
I have no objections to it , but then I share some of the characteristics of the word.
Bob S.
Re: Random bits of information
Posted: February 17th, 2007, 3:41 pm
by mischa