on 2002/05/16 01.49, Joseph B. Reid at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: [USMA:20068] Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Behold the 'ty' (typo) - An official
proposal
Don't forget that most of the world uses comma as the decimal marker. I
suspect that John Napier was the first person to use the dot as the decimal
John, well written, that is one more reason I don't understand why people
rely on this biritish brainwash!
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Subject: [USMA:20105] Re: new
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2002-05-15
In a message dated 2002-05-17 05:21:26 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1617 Napier, in Rhabdologia, referred to Simon Stevin's work and suggested
that you could use either a point or a comma as the decimal seperatrix.
"Seperatrix" ?
Someone I knew met one -- it was his
Hi guys
'Friends' is a popular TV serial in USA.
Rachel comes to labor ward to deliver a baby.
Doctor comes and says that the dilation is just 2 cm.
Meanwhile Rachel gets annoyed as others who come
after her are delivering babies.
She hold her 2 hands with a 10 cm gap and asks whether
it is 2
In this webpage there is a solution to
milliard/billion confusion.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html
It is by using greek numbers in powers.
Madan
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That's quite an interesting perspective, Bill. I liked it! :-)
Just a minor addition to say that *technically* one CAN substantiate whether one
system is *better* than the other. When one conducts an advantage vs. disadvantage
study one should arrive at the conclusion that the pros outweigh
Madan asked in USMA 20113:
'Friends' is a popular TV serial in USA.
Rachel comes to labor ward to deliver a baby.
Doctor comes and says that the dilation is just 2 cm.
Meanwhile Rachel gets annoyed as others who come
after her are delivering babies.
She hold her 2 hands with a 10 cm gap and
On Thu, 16 May 2002 15:28:06
Joseph B. Reid wrote:
In USMA 20097 Marcus made a good reply to my USMA USMA 20085:
Thanks, Joe, for your positive assessment of my contribution. Please allow me to
continue doing my best efforts to address your additional comments below.
On Wed, 15 May 2002
In a message dated Fri, 17 May 2002 9:52:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph B. Reid) writes:
Madan asked in USMA 20113:
'Friends' is a popular TV serial in USA.
Rachel comes to labor ward to deliver a baby.
Doctor comes and says that the dilation is just 2 cm.
Meanwhile
Actually, Wiz, that's American brainwash, not British.
Airmiles are simply a variant of frequent flyer miles, which were
started, as AAdvantage, by American Airlines about 20 years ago -- and
quickly copied by almost every other airline. As I understand it, Airmiles
are independent of any
on 5/16/2002 7:41 PM, Joseph B. Reid at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The solution of the dilemma is simple: adopt the comma as the decimal
marker, as most of the rest of the world already does.
I agree that the use of the comma is preferable to the use of the dot as a
decimal marker. But that
Bill Hooper askedin USMA 20129
I agree that the use of the comma is preferable to the use of the dot as a
decimal marker. But that doesn't solve the problem that was raised.
It still leaves us with the question of how to pronounce it when it is
spoken aloud. Since the comma would then be the
It is a very poor idea to try to redefine the second just for the purpose of
getting rid of the 60 second minute and 60 minute hour and 24 hour day. We
need to look for ways to use SI to solve problems, not ways to change SI to
deal with relatively minor and narrow difficulties.
The best way to
When I travelled to Liberia in 1989 before all the problems there,
temperatures were in Celsius, pressure in hPa and visibility in meters
were prevalent at the airport, all distance signs on the road and speed
limits were in km and km/h. It's an Urban legend that Liberia is non
metric, the
2002-05-17
Is that anything like a dominatrix?
John
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Subject: [USMA:20112] Re: Decimal
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In a message dated 2002-05-17 05:21:26 Eastern Daylight
2002-05-17
Liberia has to be metric. It really doesn't have a choice. Liberia is
surrounded by metric countries. Think about it! If Liberia insisted on
being FFU, it would have to pay more for everything it buys, as the products
would be special for their market area.
Cars sold in Liberia
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kilopascal
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:26 PM
Subject: [USMA:20124] Re: Decimal
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2002-05-17
Is that anything like a dominatrix?
John
You read my mind I beat me to
it!!
In a message dated 2002-05-17 12:20:44 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"Airmiles" are simply a variant of "frequent flyer miles," which were
started, as AAdvantage, by American Airlines about 20 years ago -- and
quickly copied by almost every other airline. As I understand it,
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