[7419] in SIPB bug reports
Re: webster definition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Nov 25 04:15:18 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 04:15:14 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199911250915.EAA04308@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[7205] in SIPB bug reports"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
> webster light-year gives the following:
> light-year \'li-t-.yi(*)r\ n : a unit of length in interstellar
> astronomy equal to the distance that light travels in one year in a
> vacuum or 5,878,000 miles
> Now, I wouldn't normally argue about definitions with a dictionary,
> but there should really be six more zeroes there (5.878 *trillion*
> miles).
Fixed.
speaker-for-the-dead:/mit/sipb/src/webster: webster light-year
light-year \'li-t-.yi(*)r\ n : a unit of length in interstellar astronomy
equal to the distance that light travels in one year in a vacuum or
5,878,000,000,000 miles
bug-sipb: I updated the dictionary locker too.
--
Jonathon
