Yes, METRICATE by all means. In fact my arguments started with this when Dr Ajit Ram Verma (now Retired Director NOPL, Delhi) and Shri AK Sen (then Dir.General Indian Standards) listened to my views seriously and encouraged me to have some documents published through (now, Bureau of Indian Standards). The Metric Second (in Time & arc-angle) published in April 1973, then, formed the basis of my investigations to compile my book: Towards A Unified Technology (1982).
After 20 odd years of continued persuing, I deemed it fit to shelve to find the *easiesr, surest, and cheapest* proposal that may mean NOT to change most parametres - epecially linked to Nautical astronomy i.e. the arc-angle. Agreed, I had not come across the Gradian (1/100th of the Quadrant) which I called the Metric Degree, whose 1/100th was defined as the Nautical Kilometre!
BUT, mathematical ratios would need be changed for trigonometric functions to imbed into little minds of school children.
Reagards,
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20040104/12:44 (decimal) PM(IST)
Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
*****The New Calendar Rhyme*****
Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!
And make the calendar work with Leap Week Rule! ***** ***** ***** *****
From: James Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:28133] Re: Mental conversion of Re: Time Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 10:05:28 -0500
Huh? You lost me, Brij. But that's OK; I'm not interested in pursuing this quest of yours to decimalize time. I'm still working on metricating the US.
Jim
On Saturday 2004 January 03 02:59, Brij Bhushan Vij wrote:
> Jim, sir:
> T.O.O. of your letter in decimalised HOURS *10:43:50 PM* could be easily
> read and understood as 22:73:05 PM [(43+50/60)*5/3]. AM/PM situation is
> easy to reconcile when *time reference is taken with CLEAR understanding of
> 'date line & Greenwich time'. Date change at date line is NOON at
> Greenwich. Multiplication by 5/3 at any position of the minute hand after
> the HOUR directly give *decimal minutes after the HOUR*. And each DEGREE
> longititudnal transit of SUN across any meridian can be taken as 6-2/3
> decimal minute (instead of the presnt four(4).
> 360 x 4 : 360 x 20/3 :: 1440 : 2400
> This provide the 'easiest, surest & cheapest' method to change to
> METRICATION, when 1/100th of arc-angle is linked to Nautical kilometre or
> METRE New (m') defined to be 1/10^5th of ONE degree. Circumference of Earth
> would then be 36000 km'.
>
> Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 20040103/13:50 (decimal) PM(IST)
> Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
> *****The New Calendar Rhyme*****
> Thirty days in July, September:
> April, June, November, December;
> All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
> Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
> Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
> Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!
>
> And make the calendar work with Leap Week Rule!
> ***** ***** ***** *****
....
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