> [EMAIL PROTECTED], you make a good point, and e-gold will > refine that conversion factor to make it more accurate. send > me your e-gold account number for a reward bounty. Thank you thank you! You can credit it to 105440, please, if you don't mind supporting America's most aggressive defender of firearms ownership. It's tax deductible, too. > from a scientific basis, i opine that the most precise > and accurate conversion factor between ounces and > grams to be exactly: > 31.1034768 > which is derived from the NIST data stating that: > 1 grain = 64.79891 milligrams (*exactly* because bold font) > (see http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB9.html) > also a troy ounce is *exactly* 480 grains, so we arrive at > 64.79891 mg / grain * 480 grain / troy ounce * 1/1000 g/mg = > 31.1034768 grams per troy ounce > > (for some independent form of verification, i find this number > in several web based troy ounce <-> gram conversion tables) Interesting. Oh well, either 31.1034768 or 31.103477 is better than 31.103. Probalby my calculator was chopping off digits. > e-gold account balances are tracked by weight to 6 decimal > places - in troy ounces. lets see what a difference the conversion > factor might make. a spend can only occur to a precision of > 6 decimal places in ounces. for a spend denominated in grams, > can a conversion factor of 31.103 vary the weight amount when > performed in ounces to 6 places... Right, the actual practical difference is very very small, but it is a systemic bias, which is bad, even if it is small. e-gold has over a ton in circulation, so being off by even one part in 100,000 does add up to something real. Thanks for fixing this! Dr. Evil --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
