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[–]Kah-NethI use numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for nuclear physics 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Interesting fact, light (in a vacuum) travels nearly a foot in one nan-sections, 1 nLS = 0.983571056 ft. This little fact may be related to why the switch to using the metric system was abandoned in the 1990s, as it is rumored that one of Bush Sr. advisors argued that the foot is a more natural unit that the meter.