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Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20040908H0502(decimal) AM(IST)
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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:
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From: "Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Km on Earth RE: [USMA:31042] Mars and the kilometer Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 23:31:19 +0000
Jim, sir:.....Perhaps the French who defined the kilometre were really Martians!Or perhaps, they were NOT - since they compromised to define the Nautical Kilometre: 'as 1/100th of the gon (as I then termed The Metric Degree)' in my contribution: The Metric Second (April 1973) published throught Indian Standards, New Delhi.
Since acceptance of 100-metric degree (or gon) to the quadrant shall demand compromises in mathematical ratios and astronomical calculations, I 'reverted' to NO CHANGE for 360-degree circle and arrived at a new definition for Nautical Kilometre (NKm') as 1/100th of the DEGREE in use; and to retrieve the definition of my *Proposed Metre New (m') as: 1/10^5th of the degree*.
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20040908H0497(decimal) AM(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:31042] Mars and the kilometer Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 20:25:18 -0400
In naval tradition, the saying is "a minutes, a mile" --- that is, a minute of
latitude equals a nautical mile. Of course, there has been much variation and
the international nautical mile is now set to 1852 m exactly.
But I found an interesting page on a similar topic:
http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/sea.htm
"If you want an irrelevant fact, one minute of arc on Mars is close to a
kilometre (.987 km to be more accurate). Perhaps the French who defined the
kilometre were really Martians!"
The nekkid decimal point is not my fault! I would have written 0.987 km.
Jim
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