The P.U.

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The Bureau of Weights and Measures has introduced the two-month Petraeus Unit, which can be used to convert, say, a September deadline into a November deadline.

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It ain't exactly the metric system

Therefore, approximately four Friedmans equal one Petraeus.

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dr s, it takes Cetan physics to answer that

since it's a matter of Sequency vs. Simultaneity math.

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