02-23-2017, 10:08 AM
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The best wikipedia article ever.
No contest; this one is pure gold:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_(physics)
With highlights such as: "metres per second per second per second per second per second per second"
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2017: 209.14L for 4244.00km => 4.93L/100km (47.7MPG US)
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02-23-2017, 03:46 PM
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Many modern pop songs also repeat per second per second per second per second per second per second... 
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  lifetime FE over 0.2 Gigameter or 0.13 Megamile.
For confirmation go to people just like you.
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02-23-2017, 04:36 PM
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...beats walking...
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Since they ("snap, crackle & pop") make common sense, it's obvious the european scientific weenies will demand they be changed to somebody's surnames....
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02-23-2017, 04:55 PM
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Like Celsius instead of Fahrenheit?
Oh well (meter in mouth) 
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2011 Honda Insight + HID, LEDs, tiny PV panel, extra brake pad return springs, neutral wheel alignment, 44/42 PSI (air), PHEV light (inop), tightened wheel nut.
lifetime FE over 0.2 Gigameter or 0.13 Megamile.
For confirmation go to people just like you.
For education go to people unlike yourself.
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02-23-2017, 09:07 PM
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Higher-order derivatives of position are not commonly useful.
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You laugh, but I read a paper in ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems once that started with the fourth derivative of an error signal. And that journal is one of the top journals.
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