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Old 11th November 2004 | 19:24
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BEagle
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Ah - the words of digiyoof...

PPRune Pop, remember the old '60 mph is 88 ft/sec' thing from prep school?

Call 3 mph 1/20th of 60 mph, then that's 4.4 ft/sec

25 yds is 75 ft.

Time is dist/speed, thus time is 750/44 sec.

Which is 1/4 of 750/11

Say after me, "Eleven into 75 is 6, carry 8. 11 into 90 is 8, carry 2, eleven into 20 is - call it 2.

So that's 68.2 divided by 4

Which is a tadge over 17 sec.

Or at 4 mph, 3/4 of that - so that's seven threes are 21 plus 30 equals 51 divided by 4. Twelve fours are 48, so that's 12 3/4 sec.

For digiyoof, make that 12.78409090909090 sec.....

Calculators - Bah, humbug!



And, another useful prep school piece of knowledge, a yard was actually the distance between Henry VIIIth's extended forefinger with his arm outstretched to his side parallel to the ground and the tip of his nose. Ask PPRuNe Pop - he was probably there at the time!
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