On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Peter H. Granzeau wrote: #At 19:44 08/09/2003, Mark A Mandel wrote: # #>Brust has Dragaera so carefully and consistently laid out that I #>wouldn't be surprised if he chose the 30-hour day specifically to make #>the hours and the 172-day years both come out about equal to ours, so he # #I take it that "172" is actually 17^2 (17 squared)? (sigh) Yes, that's what happens when I copy text from my web page to ASCII. The web page has the "2" superscript. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website