Grad is interesting since it links 'metre' with 1-grad x100' x100"; as I mentioned in my BASE paper: The Metric Second (1973). But, this had NO RELATION with the time units i.e. 24hx60mx60s clocks. Naturally, science & the French experience failed to bridge the arc-angle - Hour-angle axis for linking with TIME, via the value for 'Pi'. I have tried to process all value for this 'unique' mathematical ratio and suggest that this be rationalised to 100000/31831 (exactly) in the a/b form. Kindly visit:
http://the-light.com/cal/bbv_pi-radian.jpg
This, is the only value that defines both 'Pi and Radian'. Yes, the value for Pi repeat all by itself after 5244th decimal place.
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From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:26334] Grad Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:52:52 -0700
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:51:36 Joseph B. Reid wrote: ... >The right angle, i.e. 900, would become 1.570 796 327.......rad. Try >selling that to machinists.
Indeed. The rad is only good and useful when working with equations in a... "math environment", so to speak. There's unfortunately nothing practical about it.
On the other hand the grad, as called here (I prefer to call it grade), would be "perfect" from many stand points.
> They also prefer to split the right angle >into 300 and 600 rather than 33.333 333 ... grad and 66.666 666... >grad...
Instead of writing 33.3... or 66.6... we have a "language trick" of writing these with just one digit and a dot on top of it to symbolize it's actually an infinite series. Or alternatively we could put that precious dot on top of the 33 or 66 and get it over with.
Marcus
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