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Originally Posted by Cd
...the exact speed of mach one -659 point 78 miles per hour...
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Except that it's usually not :-) Mach number is the ratio of speed to the speed of sound in a material. The speed of sound in air varies depending on temperature, humidity, & pressure. At standard sea level, it's 761.2 mph.
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...yet have a terrible time remembering simple things such as something my boss tells me. I will even repeat it back, walk away and forget it thirty seconds later.
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I don't think that's unusual. I remember almost everything I read, but the spoken word tends not to be moved out of short-term memory, So it annoys me no end when I go to the doctor, for instance, and the doctor (or more often the nurse) spends several minutes talking about e.g. when I'm supposed to take the pills, and it's gone before I'm out the door.