Okay for a formula to be called good it should work for more than one item so let's try our luck at Uranus ...

So let's pick on lucky 13 and see how we fair.

13 x 686.98 = 8930.74

Now in the example about we divided by 100 and we get 89.3074 then we multiplied by 2 and we get 178.6148 ... now we multiply by our cubit of 20.6094 and we get 3681.14385912 then we divided by 10 and it leaves us 368.114385912 and then we took the sqaure root of that number and in this case we arrive at 19.18630725 ... Now what does the internet say about the semi major axis of Uranus ?

Well returning to that page again we find that Uranus is 19.22941195 Astronomical Units or 2,876,679,082 kilometres while using our number would arrive at 149,597,870.7 x 19.186307 to arrive at 2,870,230,711.3 kilometres not great but considering there are a variety of answers on the internet for the semi major axis of Uranus ...

Now just to show that I may have stumbled onto something I would like to quote this page ... [physics.unm.edu] which has the semi major axis of Uranus at 19.18 ... Interesting ...

Cheers that's 2 down and 6 to go ...

Don Barone

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"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db