[FRIAM] Strange, funny and baffling units for measuring almost anything | Royal Pingdom

2012-02-11 Thread Tom Johnson
Just in case you need a special metric http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/07/13/strange-funny-and-baffling-units-for-measuring-almost-anything/ -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] Strange, funny and baffling units for measuring almost anything | Royal Pingdom

2012-02-11 Thread Robert Holmes
There's a similar list on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement), where you'll also find a measure of information flow, the Dirac: Physicist Paul Dirac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac was known among his colleagues for his precise yet taciturn