In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chuck Harris writes: >We can play that game Poul-Henning, by using joules, one thing becomes easy, >and another becomes hard, but in the end, you always have to return to >remembering >arbitrary constants.
That's likely to be a matter of fact for any universe :-) >How many joules does it take to heat up one gram of water 1C ? >With calories it is easy: 1 calorie. Right, so it's easy for water, but what about gasoline ? I far prefer to be able to convert effortlessly between units, than to embedd arbitrary material properties in my measurement units. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
