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Let the light shine with the intensity of three radium units for fifty tals" ah, there was the first line of characters upon the torch's metal case 3 50 T; "and for one xat let it shine with the intensity of one radium unit" there was the second line; "and then for twenty-five tals with nine units." The formula was complete; but what did it mean?
'Let the light shine with the intensity of three radium units for fifty tals, and for one xat let it shine with the intensity of one radium unit, and then for twenty-five tals with nine units. Those were his very words, and to think that wise old Matai Shang should listen to such foolishness." "Indeed, it is silly," replied Lakor.
Timing my operations carefully, I held the torch to the small aperture in the door, regulating the intensity of the light by means of the thumb-lever upon the side of the case. For fifty tals I let three units of light shine full in the pinhole, then one unit for one xat, and for twenty-five tals nine units. Those last twenty-five tals were the longest twenty-five seconds of my life.
This the Martians divide into ten equal parts, commencing the day at about 6 A.M. Earth time. The zodes are divided into fifty shorter periods, each of which in turn is composed of 200 brief periods of time, about equivalent to the earthly second. 200 tals . . . . . . . . . 1 xat 50 xats . . . . . . . . . 1 zode 10 zodes . . . . . . . . 1 revolution of Mars upon its axis.
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