Correct me right! Was it not *DECIMALE* to mean 'decimal'? Centime is a coined word from Marcus. I have been posting my mails to mean *of the Metre, for and on behalf of the METRE* - even if I re-divide the (24h x60m x60s) clock to new intervals for time as *24h x100md x100sd* and link these with 90-degree'quadrant' with EACH degree further divided into 100' x100" like the HOUR, so 15-degree marker *Hour-Angle* remain undisturbed.
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From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:26256] Re: Systems of units, optimism vs. pessimism Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:19:21 -0400
Carl Sorenson, in USMA 25942, deals with a posting from Marcus which I can not find on my computer. However, Marcus appears to want to replace the second with a more decimal umit. That would involve changing most of the units in physics. Unfortunately Marcus was not in France 208 years ago. A government decree on 1793 November 24 said (my tranlatioon):
"The day, midnight to midnight, is divided into ten parts or hours, each part into ten others. and so on to smallest measurable portion of time. The hundredth part of the hour is called the *decimal minute*; the hundredth part of the minute is called the *decimal second*."
This decree was suspended on 1795 April 7. I suspect that our Babylonian hours, minutes and seconds were too well established around the world. Marcus must admit that the Babylonian units can be divided neatly in many more ways than can be a stricly decimal day.
-- Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071
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