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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
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
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
www.betonmarkets.com has a XAD unit for decigrams of gold.
Regards,
George Hara
www.filematrix.xnet.ro
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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
... 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
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