[Gllug] re: SCSI vs SATA

[Christian Smith]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Pete Ryland wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:51:39AM +0100, Andy Farnsworth wrote:
>
>> Speed of light in a vacuum (not a hoover, a vacuum)
>> 	300,000,000,000 milimeters / second
>
>c = 299792458 m/s exactly.
>
>This is actually how we define the second these days.
>

<pedant>

No, this is how we define the meter. A second is defined as some number of
oscillations of some ceasium isotope (can't remember how many of which
isotope, however:)

</pedant>

>
>Pete
>

Christian

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