At 16:33 -0400 00/10/14, James R. Frysinger wrote:
Beware, though. They also have available an Atomic Clock for the same
price. It automatically updates itself via NIST's radio time signals,
but provides only the 12-h format and degrees Foreignheight.
Foreignheight ? I never heard about that !
Among geographers, it is usually called the "Coriolis effect" rather than
"Coriolis force" to avoid implying that there is force (like the pressure
gradient force) that is deflecting freely moving bodies into a curved path
(with respect to an observer riding on the rotating Earth).
-Original
2000-10-15
This is very true. What most people don't realize is that SI is more than a
measuring system. It is a foundation for a whole family of standards.
Organizations like DIN and ISO have developed all their standards based on
rational SI. If ISO were to accept an American standard and
