Brian, I haven't heard anyone talk about therms for very long time. Possibly they still do at BG.
Cheers, Owen. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Cowell To: mogtalk2 Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 10:12 AM Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Diff Temp k is 1000, K is 1024 ( 2 raised to the power 10) Regarding mass and volume of water; the relationships a gallon weighs 10 lb, a litre weighs a kilogram can lead to inconsistencies because these are defined at different temperatures. Owen, isn't the therm still used? The gas supply companies have gone away from the megajoule in favour of kilowatt hours in order to show an apparent advantage over the electricity supply companies, courtesy of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. For energy from any source, the joule, named after the great James Prescott Joule, of the brewing family, from the City of Salford, Lancashire, should be made compulsory, Brian of SpotMog On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Johan Helsingius <[email protected]> wrote: David, > Sorry to be a pedant but it could cost you the answer in the pub quiz .One > kilobyte is 1012 Bytes and a gigabyte is 1012 megabytes 1024, actually. Or... it depends. To quote Wikipedia, "the term kilobyte and symbol kB or KB have historically been used to refer to either 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes, dependent upon context". And in the context of storage, storage device manufacturers tend to use the 1000 figure, because it makes their products seem larger-capacity than what they really are. > 10101001010 + 10110111001 is? 101100000011, of course. No harder than doing it in decimal, you just do the carry at 2 instead of 10. Of course, if you are one of the young whipper-snappers who had "reform mathematics" in school, it might be harder... :) Julf View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
