I prefer BTO. Have a great Friday!
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David de Jongh Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: SI units and precision 1 Therm = 100,000 Btu (nominally) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of robin Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 8:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: SI units and precision ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 2:29 AM Subject: Re: OT: SI units and precision > On 2014-01-08, at 08:10, Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote: > >> I need correcting before the picking starts :) >> >>> That's only about 7 tons of hard pressed snow. >> make that 20..40 tons (~300..600kg/m3) >> >>> ...you would need 70,000kcal/degree to melt... >> If you can't wait until July, 35,000 Cal per degree (C|K) should do - >> kcal / Cal / Kal = kilo-calorie >> 1 Cal = 1kg water / degree (C|K) >> >> Hopefully I made my point in favor of SI ! >> > Domesting heating is measured in BTU; British Thermal Units. > cooling in tons (of > melting ice?) and fuel energy is billed in therms (whatever that is) Probably British Thermal Units. > Hubble's constant has unit km/sec/Mpc (which reduces to Hz with some > minuscule coefficient.)
