Re: (OT) How long is a Piece of String

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

>Ben O'Regan wrote in message <3856b3b2@news.hunterlink.net.au>...
>>So how long is a piece of string???????
>"A piece of string" is usually eighteen bytes (including a one-byte
>terminator) long.

According to superstring theory, a piece of string is roughly equal to
the Planck length.  The planck length is not the length of a 4x2, but
is in fact about 10^(-43) metres.  But, to complicate matters, a piece
of such string has 10 dimensions, not one.

According to another source (the "Archbishop Makarios in a bath with a
nude woman sketch"- from the Frost Report on Nearly Everything) a
piece of string is 163,000 miles long but, due to a mix-up in
planning, it has been cut into 3-inch lengths.

Geoff Lambert