[amsat-bb] Re: Arecibo on 432 MHz Moon Bounce (some calculations)

[Idle-Tyme]

Comma or no comma, shouldn't matter
1000 mega watts or 1,000 Mega watts  is still one thousand million 
watts!  NOT one thousands watts.  true?

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On 4/21/2010 6:14 PM, David - KG4ZLB wrote:
> That because we English do it that way. The rest of the Europe, 
> Germany and France for instance, seem to like inserting a comma instead!
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> On 4/21/2010 18:45, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
>> Agreed.
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>> The only thing, other than for times and dates, that I write between 
>> numbers is a decimal point.
>> Commas and dots to split numbers into groups of three have no use.
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>> OK, I might write 5 megawatts as 5E6 watts.
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>> On 21-Apr-10 22:22, i8cvs wrote:
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