Jon S Berndt wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 May 2002 09:48:06 -0500 (CDT)
> "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> ... and the SI unit for temperature is Kelvin, no?
> >> :->
> >
> >So what is the SI unit for direction/heading? Certainly
> >they wouldn't overload unit names, right? :-)
>
> One of the worst things about metric, though, is the 100
> minute hours - which isn't really an hour, but a
> "hecto-moment". There are 100 days in a metric year, so
> the seasons are on a rotating basis. The upside is that
> we'll all live to be very old in metric terms.
Sorry, but you didn't understand Metric. They come in 1000.
So
1 Millenium =
1 000 Years =
1 000 000 Months =
1 000 000 000 Days =
1 000 000 000 000 Hours =
1 000 000 000 000 000 Seconds =
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 milli seconds
;-)
> >So what is the SI unit for direction/heading?
There's no unit for direction/heading. There's no need for it. There's
also no unit for pendulum/not-beeing-in-the-middle.
What you need is a normative direction (e.g. noth) and an angle to it.
That unit is
1 rad = 1 m/m = 360/2pi deg
a derivate of the basic SI unit meter.
(Note: degrees are still valid as they are *internationally* well known.
slugs aren't)
CU,
Christian
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