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Old 02-10-2006, 06:15 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Adonai, if you know the distance from the Earth to the sun, you can just as easily calculate the distance the earth covers in a whole year, by multiplying that distance with pi.

Divide that by the number of seconds in a year, et voila.
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