I remember that in the dim and distant past of my schooldays, we were briefly taught
about Roman Numerals and what numbers V and C amounted to in decimal. If I rightly
remember, it was a history lesson!!
Imagine if we still had to use these and tried to multiply or divide MCMXXIX by
At 12:55 -0800 02/03/8, M R wrote:
If miles were most ancient and precious
possession,
then the old Roman numerals like
I - 1
V - 5
X - 10
are also precious, do they want to go back to those
numerals. By the way, do the schools in Europe teach
these numerals still.
Yes, mostly beacause they are
I've never been thought Romanic #s here in german school
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From: Louis JOURDAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [USMA:18627] Re: Fwd: Even astrologers are at it now!!
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On 8 Mar 2002, at 20:44, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
The movies date their films in Rman numerals to conceal the date, not
to reveal it.
I have however [althought not recently] seen dates written as
12/IV/89 ... of course the reason for this use is clear !
Leonardo Boselli
nucleo informatico e
2002-03-09
About 20 years ago or so, I bought a book through a book club called: The
Great Pyramid by Piazzi Smyth originally published in 1880. If I would have
known ahead of time that 50 % of the contents was an attack on the French
Metrical System, I would never had bought it. This guy
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When I learned Romans numerals, there wasn't much time spent on learning
them. It was done in the elementary grade, and all we had to know was the
value of the letters and how to assembly the letters and to read them.
There was no math done in this numeration system.
From what I
2002-03-09
Decimal miles are tolerable because the editor doesn't want to waste time
and effort to convert the metric to proper FFU. They are happy as long as
the word miles appears, and who cares what precedes it. Just think if 12
km, the true length was converted to proper FFU units. It
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You would not learn them at the University level, but somewhere in your
childhood years, maybe your 3-rd school year. When did you start attending
German schools? What school year and what age?
It doesn't hurt to know them. This way you can read the dates on older
buildings. In
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From: Han Maenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: March 9, 2002 03:05
Subject: [USMA:18625] Anti-metric Associated Press
Associated Press thinks that the am/pm clock is used in Europe and they
also
think that we use irrational and
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From: Stephen Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [USMA:18626] Re: Roman legacy
I remember that in the dim and distant past of my schooldays, we were
briefly taught about Roman Numerals and what
Scientific Features of the Great Pyramid
Question: What are some of the scientific features of the Great Pyramid?
Answer: The first work of importance on the subject, proving the Great
Pyramid has scientific features, was in 1859 by John Taylor of England.
Since then the attention of many able
on 2002/03/07 15.41, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2002-03-06
I think they still use feet/inches for height and stone/pounds for weight.
And clothing sizes might still be in inches.
Am I right?
John
Dear John and All,
You are partly right. Heights are still commonly quoted
Dear Jim and All,
I think that the word 'power' has more problems other than those that you
refer to in physics.
Consider these sentences:
The government, which is a nuclear power, has the power to order the
electricity company to supply power to essential services during the power
strike.
Dear Jim and All,
Pardon my ignorance, but what's a twinky? From here it sort of sounds
vaguely salacious!
On another point, I like your approach to understanding the difference
between energy and power. Would you mind sharing some of the values you use
for energy content?
Cheers,
Pat
on 2002/03/07 12.13, Ezra Steinberg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pat:
This probably has been mentioned in the past, but I'm wondering what the
exceptions, small though they might be, are that still haunt y'all Down Under
...
Ezra
Dear Ezra,
Overall, metrication in Australia worked very
2002-03-09
http://www.europa.com/edge/pyramid.html
I stumbled across this site and found it extremely
interesting. Only to the point of that some have claimed to have found
accurate use of inches in the times of the ancient Egyptians. Inches that
are very close in value to modern inches.
Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear Jim and All,
I think that the word 'power' has more problems other than those that you
refer to in physics.
Even in physics I see this misused. Our current undergraduate textbook
(the algebra, non-majors course) speaks of the power of lenses (= 1
/f) in
Was anyone playing the fiddle at the time?
(Remember that Nero fiddled while Rome burned.)
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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Dear Peter,
Thank you for your response to my letter.
As you correctly pointed out I tried to use
Peter Hitchens quite obviously has much in common with the southern end of a
northbound horse.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Pat Naughtin
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002
Just back from business in S. California, specifically a conference in
Ventura. Wandering next door to a Von's supermarket one evening, I noticed
all the liquor labeled with Price per Litre tags on the shelves (note
Litre spelling).
Some of the wine was also labeled Price per Litre, while some
I'll try to remember to take a look the next time I'm in Ralph's or Raley's.
By the way, Trader Joe's sells their own mineral water in 1 L bottles.
However, they give the volume in pints and fluid ounces first, fluid
ounces-only second, then SI in parentheses. I guess they have no conception
of
A friend of ours is gradually shifting from her practice of living in the US
and visiting France, to living in France and visiting the US. Despite her
immersion in the French language and her improved skills in French, she still
thinks in English for measurements. So of course I am trying to
In a message dated 2002-03-09 14:42:47 Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dear Jim and All,
I think that the word 'power' has more problems other than those that you
refer to in physics.
Consider these sentences:
The government, which is a nuclear power, has the power to order
Thanks, Bill. Does it sorta say the same thing in French that it does in
English? Would a French person understand it and even, perhaps, accept it
when put that way? I owe nothing to the author; she's on her own and so am I.
Jim
On Saturday, 2002 March 09 2215, Bill Potts wrote:
Almost
It's correct French (after the corrections). It also says the right thing.
Whether or not it's memorable is another matter. g
It would help if lines 3 and 4 rhymed.
Your last comment is intriguing. g
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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To all:
This email is completely off topic, and I would like to apologise in
advance for posting it on the list. Yet, I just wanted to share with
the members on the list a few items from my life. In two weeks, I am
flying to New York City for the National Model United Nations
competition with
At 20:31 -0500 02/03/9, James Frysinger wrote:
A friend of ours is gradually shifting from her practice of living in the US
and visiting France, to living in France and visiting the US. Despite her
immersion in the French language and her improved skills in French, she still
thinks in English for
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