Dave Ackrill wrote:
Mark Sims wrote:
the femtofortnight.
uk.rec.sheds lives!
For those that don't remember back to Usenet, this was in the days
before forums, when every discussion group had to get approval before it
was accepted on the system and uk.rec.sheds was a hip and happening
Did the google thing. Got Royal Children's Hospital. Found nothing in
the first two pages. Gave up. Emailed time-nuts. Of course it was on
the third page.
Never thought to type it into wikipedia...
Thanks to all who have helped!
Jim
2009/8/20 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net:
Can someone
Just Google RCH
REM
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To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 61,
Strange, its the first item on my Google of rch note, no caps no
quotes.
REM
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Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:42 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency
Maybe google australia does it differently?
2009/8/20 Bob Martinson remartin...@rcn.com:
Strange, its the first item on my Google of rch note, no caps no
quotes.
REM
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Hal Murray wrote:
Can someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what these
stand for?
You must not be very miserable. Google usually does a good job of answering
that type of question. There are a couple of sites that collect acronyms and
several sites that collect slang.
In a message dated 20/08/2009 05:40:44 GMT Daylight Time,
swith...@alum.mit.edu writes:
Anyone know of any information on the 5045 Cesium module used in the
Datum PRS-50 (User Manual, Service Manual, etc.)?
I did a cursory check of the Symmetricom web site but didn't turn up
anything.
Hi Rex,
Yep, as usual Google is fantastic for this task. Asking, 'RCH
definition', I found out this:
Royal Canadian Hussars
...
try the urban dictionary, it's a very good reference for slang terms,
not safe for work for some, though...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rph
One of the more interesting units used in the air conditioning
industry in USA in the past was
a measure of wall insulation which was tons per square foot per inch
per degree Fahrenheit.
That is the number of tons of ice per 24 hour period that must melt
to sustain a temperature difference
At 02:28 AM 8/20/2009, p...@greenrover.demon.co.uk wrote...
Dave Ackrill wrote:
See http://www.uk-rec-sheds.org.uk
Where was born the international standard unit of time - the
fortnight...
Not everything can be attributed to the modern computer world.
Indeed. According to the OED,
Neville Michie wrote:
One of the more interesting units used in the air conditioning
industry in USA in the past was
a measure of wall insulation which was tons per square foot per inch
per degree Fahrenheit.
That is the number of tons of ice per 24 hour period that must melt to
sustain a
Dick Moore wrote:
Mark -- my friend, mentor, and former employer, Paul Klipsch (sadly,
now deceased) used to use the unit of furlongs per fortnight -- also
ffn,
1 Furlong= 660 ft = 201.168 m
1 Fortnight = 14 days = 1,209,600 s
One furlong per fortnight is very nearly 1
I had the same issue with the softmark board about 18 months ago. They did
respond to my enquiries and sent me another board which repeated the problem
If the (more modern) equipment accepts requests like ?FREQ and sends the
answer straight back it works fine. If the equipment requires lines to
p...@greenrover.demon.co.uk wrote:
Dave Ackrill wrote:
Mark Sims wrote:
the femtofortnight.
uk.rec.sheds lives!
For those that don't remember back to Usenet, this was in the days
before forums, when every discussion group had to get approval before
it was accepted on the system and
Mike S wrote:
At 02:28 AM 8/20/2009, p...@greenrover.demon.co.uk wrote...
Dave Ackrill wrote:
See http://www.uk-rec-sheds.org.uk
Where was born the international standard unit of time - the
fortnight...
Not everything can be attributed to the modern computer world.
Indeed. According to
Or, what about boiler HP which has almost no relation to the HP used in
connection with motors and engines.
They still use that measure of insulation, slightly changed, as R value: BTU/hr
= 1/R * delta T(deg F) * square feet
Tons, as a unit of refrigerating capacity (12000 BTU/hr) is still
Civil engineers measure water reservoirs in Acre-Feet.
-John
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One of the more interesting units used in the air conditioning
industry in USA in the past was
a measure of wall insulation which was tons per square foot per inch
per degree Fahrenheit.
That is the number of tons
I have seen a standard deviation expressed in foot-meter.
--
Björn
Civil engineers measure water reservoirs in Acre-Feet.
-John
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Maybe google australia does it differently?
Sure does. Thanks, I wouldn't have thought of that, at least not soon.
Did the google thing. Got Royal Children's Hospital. Found nothing in
the first two pages. Gave up. Emailed time-nuts. Of course it was on
the third page.
Royal Children's
J. Forster wrote:
Civil engineers measure water reservoirs in Acre-Feet.
A personal favorite of my own production is the volume cubicliter. :)
A related measure is the squareliter... which is the area that a liter
of milk spilled on a kitchen floor covers.
Cheers,
Magnus
Many of these wierd units make perfect sense to those working in that
field every day.
The acre-feet for example. It is only necessary to figure the area of a
pond once and then a simple ruler will tell you how much water is in it
and if you need to start rationing water use.
-John
In a message dated 20/08/2009 17:51:32 GMT Daylight Time, j...@quik.com
writes:
Civil engineers measure water reservoirs in Acre-Feet.
Runners use something very similar to measure marathons!
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sqrt([foot][m])...
I have seen a standard deviation expressed in foot-meter.
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Civil engineers measure water reservoirs in Acre-Feet.
-John
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b...@lysator.liu.se wrote:
sqrt([foot][m])...
And the point of that is?
Cheers,
Magnus - concluded that the fuse has blown...
I have seen a standard deviation expressed in foot-meter.
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Björn
Civil engineers measure water reservoirs in Acre-Feet.
-John
In message 1746.12.6.201.247.1250792817.squir...@popacctsnew.quik.com, J. Fo
rster writes:
The acre-feet for example. It is only necessary to figure the area of a
pond once and then a simple ruler will tell you how much water is in it
and if you need to start rationing water use.
The most
There is a unit of force in the old fps system called the slug. Then you get
derivations such as work units of slug feet or loadings of slugs per square
foot etc.
Morris
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Oh, and of course power in that system is slug-furlongs per fortnight. :-)
As for RCH, I work there from time to time and often grin privately at the
other meaning.
Morris
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Sent: Friday, 21 August 2009 7:19 AM
To:
Gawd, I actually remember the Slug.
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Had
K7MLR
At 02:18 PM 8/20/2009, you wrote:
There is a unit of force in the old fps system called the slug. Then you get
derivations such as work units of slug feet or loadings of slugs per square
foot etc.
Morris
The most amazing unit I have hit was the Sverdrup, used for
measuring sea-currents. I belive it is km^3/s.
Close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdrup
It is equivalent to 10^6 cubic meters per second (0.001 km³/s, or about 264
million U.S. gallons per second).
The entire global input of
Sheez - I'm so glad we have metric!!
Can I ask you US dudes a question?
Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is?
It's such a commonly used term for measuring large areas, but I bet
most don't know what it actually is. I only know because of Pink
Floyd.
We use a hectare which is
Ohh, and I almost forgot: US cooling engineers measuring energy
in tons.
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Jim Palfreyman wrote:
Sheez - I'm so glad we have metric!!
Can I ask you US dudes a question?
Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is?
It's such a commonly used term for measuring large areas, but I bet
most don't know what it actually is. I only know because of Pink
Floyd.
We
Yep, 43,560 square feet. I only know because I recently bought a 1 acre lot
in Taos for building an observatory.
-Bob
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Jim Palfreyman jim77...@gmail.com wrote:
Sheez - I'm so glad we have metric!!
Can I ask you US dudes a question?
Do you know, without
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Ohh, and I almost forgot: US cooling engineers measuring energy
in tons.
As they also measure the load capacity of the truck that has to carry said air
conditioning unit, not that those two types of tons have anything in common with
the 2000 pound type of ton. (A
The amount of land a man and a mule can plow in one day.
43560 square feet
640 Acres=1 square mile
Jim Palfreyman wrote:
Sheez - I'm so glad we have metric!!
Can I ask you US dudes a question?
Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is?
It's such a commonly used term for measuring
An acre is 43,560 Sq. Ft. It is evenly divisible by 9 to convert to sq.
yards, and also in square rods, a surveyer's unit.
Oh, BTW, a slug is a unit of Mass, not Force. It is the mass that, when
subjected to a 1 lb. force will accelerate at 1 ft/sec/sec.
-John
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Sheez - I'm so
An off-topic from time to time is great, but a new email every minute
unrelated with time-nuts is a bit too much, didn't you think ?
Sorry, I don't want to be rude.
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Same guys measure humidity in grains/lb. There are 7000 grains/lb, BTW.
-John
Ohh, and I almost forgot: US cooling engineers measuring energy
in tons.
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Speaking of slug-feet, I had a very direct experience with that little unit.
It had been raining here and the door mat was soaked. I did not want to track
water into the house, so I left my shoes on the back step.
The next morning, I left the house early and stepped into my shoes...
Jim
Silly question, You must not live in California.
Of course it is 1/640 of a square mile
or was it 1/460 of a square something else?
In any case, everyone in California knows it is 1/50,000 of what an average
wild fire burns.
ws
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From: Jim Palfreyman
In a message dated 20/08/2009 23:17:43 GMT Daylight Time,
jim77...@gmail.com writes:
Can I ask you US dudes a question?
Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is?
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It's usually the result of a dodgy rugby tackle!
Can I ask you US dudes a question?
Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is?
I had to think a couple of seconds, but I came up with 640.
A lot of the western US was surveyed so they would have something to put in
deeds. A township is 6 by 6 miles divided up into 36 sections a
On 8/20/09 3:16 PM, Jim Palfreyman jim77...@gmail.com wrote:
Sheez - I'm so glad we have metric!!
Can I ask you US dudes a question?
Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is?
Of course we do, it's 43,560 square feet, but that's not what's important.
There are 640 acres in a
I don't know how you guys put up with such a complicated system.
Especially when Jefferson, Washington and Franklin played such a big
part in the invention of the metric system.
Jim Palfreyman
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Metric time
Yes! Bring on the deciday instead of the hour;
the centiday instead of the minute. Get rid of
this 3600 stuff?
H. Maybe it should be the microyear instead.
If only we had eight fingers instead of ten,
we would have saved so much effort developing
computers.
Mike - AA8K
In a message dated 21/08/2009 00:18:40 GMT Daylight Time,
james.p@jpl.nasa.gov writes:
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DON'T YOU JUST WISH SOMETIMES THAT YOU NEVER ASKED???
Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is?
Of
On 8/20/09 4:13 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote:
Can I ask you US dudes a question?
Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is?
I had to think a couple of seconds, but I came up with 640.
A lot of the western US was surveyed so they would have something to put
On 8/20/09 4:40 PM, gandal...@aol.com gandal...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 21/08/2009 00:18:40 GMT Daylight Time,
james.p@jpl.nasa.gov writes:
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DON'T YOU JUST WISH SOMETIMES THAT YOU NEVER ASKED???
Never...
Carpe Scientia
(hoping
In a message dated 21/08/2009 01:12:45 GMT Daylight Time,
james.p@jpl.nasa.gov writes:
DON'T YOU JUST WISH SOMETIMES THAT YOU NEVER ASKED???
Never...
Carpe Scientia
(hoping my grammar is correct.. How many Romans? But this is motion
towards... Etc.)
Hey, if it weren't for this
Well said!!
The noise floor is way too high today.
From iPhone
On Aug 20, 2009, at 15:34, Samuel D. [x86/CPC] s...@canardpc.com
wrote:
An off-topic from time to time is great, but a new email every minute
unrelated with time-nuts is a bit too much, didn't you think ?
Sorry, I don't want
Last night I was looking at weather stations along the Columbia River near
Boneville Dam and I came up with this. Been pretty hot up there again.
A Langley
a CGS unit of heat transmission equal to one thermochemical calorie per square
centimeter, or exactly 41.84 kilojoules per square meter
Having one's name attached to a unit is just about the ultimate tribute in
science. IMO, a bigger honor than the Nobel Prize.
W/out these people, we'd be living in the Middle Ages.
FWIW,
-John
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Last night I was looking at weather stations along the Columbia River near
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