"it's a zoo out there!" - for once it is the same -40 degrees
in many spots north and south of the USA/Canada border,
-40 degrees ! (-40F = -40C)
How often this has happen, no one knows: A car heading north
on I-87 approaching the Canadian border, the car radio jumping
to a Montreal radio station: ,,, it's gonna be beautiful day today,
currently 18 degrees in downtown Montreal, warming up to an
expected high of 28 ... [CLICK] "Gosh Charly, I didn't pack winter
cloths and that Jazz Festival is outdoors, we better turn around!"
sas wrote:
... while it was once somewhat difficult to convert miles
per hour to feet per second (or furlongs per fortnight),
we have calculators and Google now.
Sure and prior to that we used slide rules and conversion
tables but the metric stuff is easy enough to do estmates
without. We just talked about a hugh 18+2 wheel semi-trailer
hauling snow out of the city and estimated 2.5m x 2m x 15m
= 75m3 = 75t if it were water. That's only about 7 tons of
hard pressed snow. Note the real beauty: the decimal point
and the relationship 1mm3 = 1 ml = 1gr / 10cm = 1l = 1kg /
1 m3 = 1000l = 1t of water, To melt those 7 tons of snow to
get 7'000 liters of water you would need 70,000kcal/degree
or wait until July... - enough !
Rob van der Heij commenting on:
At least that explains I don't need to worry that km is not
suddenly 1024 m as soon as I carry a storage device ;-)
... and the IBM 1401 came in 6 sizes, e.g: 1.4K, 4K, 8K,16K
meaning 1400, 4000, 8000, 16'000 BYTES respectively !
and Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. was right...
I assume you meant kilo rather than kibi?
(Mega/Mebi and Giga/Gibi)
I'd vote for that !
Let's add "Tebi" to keep disk drive vendors honest!
Andreas Geissbuehler
