[e-gold-list] Re: question about units

2003-10-02 Thread Wilkinson Jens
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi jens, isn't it strange that scientific units like grams seem that way, yet fiat units like dollars don't! Well, generally speaking that's true but actually right now the Indonesian rupiah is about 10,000 to one euro... i

[e-gold-list] Re: question about units

2003-10-01 Thread jrw
these units seem a bit far from real life. I think that hi jens, isn't it strange that scientific units like grams seem that way, yet fiat units like dollars don't! decigrammes or even centigrammes? Has anybody ever thought about this? i have heard/seen people use 'milligrams' when talking

[e-gold-list] Re: question about units

2003-10-01 Thread Asiana Gold
Wilkinson Jens wrote: One thing I wanted to ask about is units. Gold is generally counted in troy ounces or in grams, but both of these units seem a bit far from real life. I think that a gram is worth about 10 dollars, so that means one US cent would be about 0.001 dollars, forcing you to use

[e-gold-list] Re: question about units

2003-10-01 Thread FileMatrix
www.betonmarkets.com has a XAD unit for decigrams of gold. Regards, George Hara www.filematrix.xnet.ro --- Xnet scaneaza automat toate mesajele impotriva virusilor folosind RAV AntiVirus. Xnet

[e-gold-list] RE: question about units

2003-10-01 Thread Ian Green
Hi Jens, That subject has come up here. I know you guys have much more experience in typing non-ASCII characters into computers (because I've set up computers for schools that teach Japanese), but as we cannot practically invent a new single or double byte character of a G with a line down the

[e-gold-list] Re: question about units

2003-10-01 Thread David Beroff
... that means one US cent would be about 0.001 dollars, forcing you to use three digits. Wouldn't it be better to count in either decigrammes or even centigrammes? Has anybody ever thought about this? I see no problem with three digits, and actually, with SI units, one needn't even use the

[e-gold-list] Re: question about units

2003-10-01 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 07:19 AM, Wilkinson Jens wrote: One thing I wanted to ask about is units. Gold is generally counted in troy ounces or in grams, but both of these units seem a bit far from real life. I think that a gram is worth about 10 dollars, so that means one US cent would