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Fair 'nuff, point still stands, system of 12 works in a society where most people had a limited education, if they had any education at all
 
Since the figure quoted is close to 30% of a nanosecond for nearly 3-1/3 feet it's much closer to 10 feet per nanosecond.
1/300,000,000 seconds is 3 1/3 nanosecond not 0.3 nanoseconds. Google gives speed of light as 0.9857 feet/nanosecond
 
1/300,000,000 seconds is 3 1/3 nanosecond not 0.3 nanoseconds.
I looked long and hard at that in the first instance (didn't Google) and 1 nanosecond is 1/1,000,000,000 sec. which makes 1/300,000,000 / 1/1,000,000,000 = 0.3ns. and there isn't an SI unit of 1/90,000,000 that would be needed to make 1/300,000,000 sec. 3 1/3 ns.

But I'm now totally confused because as you have correctly pointed out Josh, Google does say light travels 1' in 1 nanosecond ????

So, I have something wrong but can't see what!

[EDIT] D'oh !!! I'm upside down !!
 
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I looked long and hard at that in the first instance (didn't Google) and 1 nanosecond is 1/1,000,000,000 sec. which makes 1/300,000,000 / 1/1,000,000,000 = 0.3ns. and there isn't an SI unit of 1/90,000,000 that would be needed to make 1/300,000,000 sec. 3 1/3 ns.

But I'm now totally confused because as you have correctly pointed out Josh, Google does say light travels 1' in 1 nanosecond ????

So, I have something wrong but can't see what!

[EDIT] D'oh !!! I'm upside down !!
Yep, you were upside down, so easy to do!
 
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