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Old 07-24-13, 06:07 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Pisces View Post
That billion is probably meant to be 1.000.000.000, miles. (a thousand million) Which would be a light time of about 1.5 hours. A million million miles would be a light time of 61 days, which would be closer to your 0.2 light years.

The definition of 'billion' differs between countries/languages.
Yeah yeah, but since 1974 all the important countries finally agreed with the good ole US of A!!!!!

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