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Distance Earth-Sun = 1 AU 1e6 AU = 15.81 light years. Somebody did not pick up the 'e6' part...
by d--b 9y ago
Distance Earth-Sun = 1 AU
1e6 AU = 15.81 light years.
Somebody did not pick up the 'e6' part...
- sigmaprimus 9y agoYes definitely a decimal place error https://www.calculateme.com/astronomy/astronomical-units/to-light-years/1000000 https://www.calculateme.com/astronomy/astronomical-units/to-...
- cjensen 9y agoPretty much. The sidebar references Wikipedia's List of brightest stars [1]. That table has the distance from Earth to the Sun in lightyears. So maybe a parsing problem with 0.000015813. On the January 21st this was changed from 0.000 015 813, so it may have been parsing that wrong. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars#Main_table_of_the_brightest_stars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars#Main_t...