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Old December 24th 07, 09:14 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Mathematical incompetence (was absurd conversions)

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"Jack )" writes:
This is getting off topic but what the hell - it's Christmas. And in
any case, 25 December is Newton's birthday.

Said Sir Isaac: "I've got a great notion
That force is a changer of motion.
Let's put it this way:
F = Ma
The rest is just sweat and devotion."


He was obviously a confounded modernist. At my school, it was always
P = mf

Of course, that would rather bugger up the rhyme.
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