Warlock & low traffic

[Jeffrey Reid]

On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Paul Mackin wrote:
> IJ was great book but now need to get back to an earlier America.
> Before they started using 24-hour time, subsidized/nonnumbered years,
> and metric. By the way, does anyone know if "clicks" (the way IJ measures 
> distance) are metric? In other words, are there kiloclicks, megaclicks, 
> and gigaclicks? And what the heck _is_ a click? Was that explained
> anywhere? I did read all the footnotes.
> 
'click' is slang for kilometer (often used in the military).

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Jeffrey G Reid       			jgreid at u.washington.edu
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