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How long is a ligh year?
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Oh what a load of confuzzlement in just a few answers!
druiaghtagh obviously meant to write "the distance light travels...";
Gef was correct in saying "about 6 billion miles", because 5,869,552,896,000 [New Forester's figure] is "about 6 billion";
Mattk was making a valid point because he was confused by druiaghtagh's typographical error;
New Forester was a thousand times wrong, because "5,869,552,896,000" is about 6 billion, not about 6 thousand billion;
sddsddean is correct in saying that a billion is 1,000,000,000,000, but is wrong to say that we have "officially changed" to the incorrect, illogical and inaccurate American so-called billion of 1,000,000,000;
ansteyg also seems to have made a typographical error by writing "The distance time travels in one year is not a light year it is a year" instead of "The distance time travels in one year is not a year it is a light year" etc.
And knowing my luck, my answer will become erronious as soon as I have clicked the "submit" button, due to the insertion of a typographical error by the resident AB gremlins.
druiaghtagh obviously meant to write "the distance light travels...";
Gef was correct in saying "about 6 billion miles", because 5,869,552,896,000 [New Forester's figure] is "about 6 billion";
Mattk was making a valid point because he was confused by druiaghtagh's typographical error;
New Forester was a thousand times wrong, because "5,869,552,896,000" is about 6 billion, not about 6 thousand billion;
sddsddean is correct in saying that a billion is 1,000,000,000,000, but is wrong to say that we have "officially changed" to the incorrect, illogical and inaccurate American so-called billion of 1,000,000,000;
ansteyg also seems to have made a typographical error by writing "The distance time travels in one year is not a light year it is a year" instead of "The distance time travels in one year is not a year it is a light year" etc.
And knowing my luck, my answer will become erronious as soon as I have clicked the "submit" button, due to the insertion of a typographical error by the resident AB gremlins.
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No, ansteyg, it is you who seem to be confused. You said that the distance was a "year", and not a "light year" etc, when it would have been accurate to say that the distance was a "light year", not a "year".
Mattk did not appear to have been confused or facetious; Mattk was pointing out accurately that a light-year is a distance, and that a year is a time.
Gef obviously misread Mattk's answer, because Gef seemed to be "correcting" Mattk even though they were agreeing with each other.
And Mattk's most recent answer shows that he actually misunderstood the original question, because the question "How long is a light year?" could refer equally well to "how long" a distance, as well as "how long" a time. It is not necessary to say "how far" when referring to a distance; "how long" is equally correct.
I think that someone is pretending not to understand something somewhere...
Mattk did not appear to have been confused or facetious; Mattk was pointing out accurately that a light-year is a distance, and that a year is a time.
Gef obviously misread Mattk's answer, because Gef seemed to be "correcting" Mattk even though they were agreeing with each other.
And Mattk's most recent answer shows that he actually misunderstood the original question, because the question "How long is a light year?" could refer equally well to "how long" a distance, as well as "how long" a time. It is not necessary to say "how far" when referring to a distance; "how long" is equally correct.
I think that someone is pretending not to understand something somewhere...
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