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The Foot-Ounce-Ouncedal
System
Posted By: Bryan Ashley James Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sunday, 30 May 2004, at 1:14 p.m.
This system does not actually exist, but it *IS* a
highly compelling implied system.
That is to say, all of the following units exist by
implication (just as the S dry gallon exists by implication), but actually not
in practice.
All the following holds true with no change whatsoever
to any of our current English units.
Units:
Length: Foot (ft)
Mass: Ounce (oz)
Time: Second (s)
Force: Ouncedal (ol-- on the analogy on "poundal")
Energy/Work: Fozdal (fol) [foot-ouncedal]
Power: Fols
[foot-ouncedal/second]
Volume: Cuf = 1 cubic foot = 1000oz water
1 Ouncedal is very close to one gram-force in size. To
be more precise:
1 ouncedal = 1/514.7848 pound-force
1
kilouncedal = 31.08oz (i.e. very close to two pounds, more so than a kilogram)
1 Megouncedal = very close to the US ton
My opinion:
It is amazing that people can't come to grips with
reality and will do anything to keep alive a collection of units that is
slowly, but surely being phased out.
Euric
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