28 May
2010
28 May
'10
8:09 p.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Bout the only thing that isn't is time, oh sure there's the SI uit of
time the second and whilst it's common to measure fractions of seconds
in powers of 10 e.g. mili, micro, nano, pico etc. I's not at least
outside scientific circles to measure multiples of seconds in decimal
e.g. we say :-
1 hour and not 3.6 kiloseconds
1 day and not 86.4 kiloseconds
1 year and not 31.56megaseconds (2 sig fig!) etc.
Humm wonder if I could patent a watch that measures time in seconds/day :)
Cheers.
Phill.
--
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !
"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.
On 28 May 2010 at 18:36, arcarlini at iee.org
wrote:
Metric makes sense. Everything's in tens and hundreds and thousands;
unit conversion is trivial. The different measurements are all
connected - 1 litre = a 10 x 10 x 10 cm cube, and that much water is
1kg. Freeze it, that's 0?C; boil it, that's 100?. It all interlocks
like clockwork, no fooling around with 24 of this makes 1 of those but
three-fourteenths of one of them, and a unit of weight depends on what
you're weighing and suchlike nonsense.