Brian J White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <Clap clap clap clap clap! Bravo!>
To which I must add: Woof! Woof! Woof! (from Arsenio Hall's audience). We should adopt the "Keep It Simple, SI!" (K.I.S.S.) principle. For most people, radians should stay in the trigonometry book where they belong. Degrees 'rule' because they are easier to use for carpentry, architecture, metalworking, and surveying. Grads are also useful, especially for expressing the inclinations of roads in mountainous and hilly areas. Even US road signs use grads (Ex. "7% Grade" in black characters on a yellow background, with a black pictogram of a truck driving down a steep lope). -- Jason > At 11:44 2003-07-15 -0500, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote: > >In reading this discussion of angular measurement, I'm kinda glad that the > >American public isn't looking over my shoulder. This is the kind of dialogue > >that the anti-metric forces use as a caricature against us to try to > >convince the public that the metric system is anything but simple. The truth > >is, of course, that the more arcane, derived units will seldom see the > >public light of day. I must try to keep my eyes on the prize---of measuring > >areas, lengths, weights, and volumes in an elegant decimal manner which is > >the same everywhere on earth. The simplicity of the everyday metric system > >will sell itself. > > > >Paul Trusten, R.Ph. > >3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 > >Midland TX 79707-2872 USA > >432-694-6208 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >"There are two cardinal sins, from > >which all the others spring: impatience > >and laziness." > > ---Franz Kafka >
