Hi All: Unfortunately the metric system suffers from the disadvantage that it is not rationally divible by most numbers - a mandatory requirement of the human mind (for ease) in knowing the excat position of planetary bodies *for astronomy and mathematics*. This is an area that most fortune tellers befool the common humans who are desire to know :What lies in store of their FUTURE! This is where the NUMBER 60 prevailed all along (of being its divisibility by 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,and 30. This cannot be achieved by 10 or 100 or 1000 etc. Will the deo-decimal proposal some parties advocate hold this? But, first the system has to be worked and proved *so the status quo or NO CHANGE* attitude! As far the 24-hour scheme, it has prevailed for ages (again because of its excat divisiblity by 2,3,4,6,8,12. Decimalisation of the HOUR *hereon* will not make much impact on humans or astologers/astronomers or the mathematicians; especially when the tying is linked with the similar division of the DEGREE i.e. the HOUR-ANGLE. This is where the need to increase the length UNIT *metre* by the factor 1.11194886884 times the metre we use. My paper The Metric Second (1973 April) amply demosntrated THIS. More so, I had tried to give (at page 157)worked results for using *velocity of light* as a measure for TIME. I wish some one took a serious note of what I had done or am trying to propose. Brij Bhushan Vij<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: M R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:21602] Fwd: Re: Proposal For World Calendar >Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 05:48:28 -0700 (PDT) > >The reason for using decimal system is the simplicity >of + , - , * and /. > >30 + 10 = 40 (just add 1 # to the left digit) >50 - 10 = 40 (subtract 1 # from left digit) >40 * 10 = 400 (add another 0) >5000 / 10 = 500 (remove a 0) > >Its mostly a matter adding and removing 0. >This simplicity cannot be found in any other # system. > >Madan > > > >--- "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:57:35 -0400 > > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph B. Reid) > > Subject: [USMA:21568] Re: Proposal For World > > Calendar > > > > Brij Bhushan Vij and Marcus Berger have proposed > > several iconoclastic > > improvements to the metric system. They don't go far > > enough. First we > > should reform the number system, and then build a > > new metric system on that > > foundation. > > I have a set of tables, "Duodecimal Arithmetic" > > (radix twelve) by George S. > > Terry, published in 1938 by Longmans, Green. It > > contains 407 pages of > > mathematical tables of factors, fractions, > > factorials, reciprocal > > factorials, powers, reciprocal powers, squares, > > cubes, square roots, cube > > roots, reciprocals, trignometrical functions of > > common angles, conversion > > of angles, conversion of time, sin, cos, tan, n cot > > n, logarithms, log > > trignometric functions, napierian logarithms, log > > sin, log cos, log tan in > > radians, exponential, sine and cosine integrals, > > factorial function, > > digamma function, Bessel functions, interpolation > > coefficients. > > > > Truly a labor of love, It was achieved BC (before > > computers) using a > > modified Munroe calculator that used parts from > > Munroe sterling > > calculators. > > > > Joseph B.Reid > > 17 Glebe Road West > > Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071 > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs >http://www.hotjobs.com > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
