Re: pedagogically barren?

2003-06-06 Thread Peter Bunclark
I'd be interested to hear how one measures the leading edge of the human life to death transition pulse with a precision that makes the UT1 vs. UTC question even relevant. A husband has a will leaving everything to his wife, or if she dies first, to their children. The wife has a will

Re: pedagogically barren?

2003-06-05 Thread William Thompson
Markus Kuhn wrote: (stuff deleted) While the international inch is indeed linked to the meter by a reasonably round factor, and even shows up indirectly in a number of ISO standards (e.g., inch-based threads and pipes), this can clearly not be said for the US pound and the US gallon and

Re: pedagogically barren?

2003-06-05 Thread Seeds, Glen
Title: RE: [LEAPSECS] pedagogically barren? It's also true that changing to SI units for weight and volume is a lot more technically tractable than for length. Public opposition would still be a big barrier, though. /glen -Original Message- From: William Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL