Dear Marcus, Madan, and All,
What would the implications be of the widespread acceptance of the Swatch
unit of time, the beat.
In particular what impact could it have on navigation especially if the GPS
became more widely used, and preferred SI units, without its ifp software
filters?
It seems that Swatch have in some senses already pre-empted Marcus's
suggestion of a circle divided into a thousand units, even though Swatch
chose time where Marcus chose distance.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
CAMS - Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist
- United States Metric Association
ASM - Accredited Speaking Member
- National Speakers Association of Australia
Member, International Federation for Professional Speakers
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on 2001/11/20 08.58, M R at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Marcus
>
> The logic is simple. Anything which has already been
> brought under the metric system like meter, gram, etc
> (with deka, hecto, kilo, etc for multiples and
> deci, centi, milli, etc for divisions) shall stay as
> it is.
>
> The importance of the meter is not in the
> circumference
> of the Earth or the Sun, but the multiples and
> divisions
> that make it simple.
>
> For those units like angles and time, you can consider
> metricating it.
>
> For time - already there is a proposal by Swatch, who
> have divided a day into 1000 units called beats with
> upto 2 decimal places. But implementing it will take
> an enormous effort.
>
> But let us first concentrate on metricating USA.
>
> Madan
>
>
>
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