Rocky:
Thanks for being on my frequency!
Here is more info for your active mind - a contribution at: "Shelving Mile
in Favour of Nautical Kilometre; Proceedings of 3rd International Conference
on Metrology In New Millennium And Global Trade (MMGT - 2001); Document #
27; pp.169; National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi; 2001 February 4-8".
Please see:
http://www.brijvij.com/bbv_shelving-NMile.pdf
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: Rocky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:39158] Metric clock must be 24 hours
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:44:31 -0700 (PDT)
Brij is right. We can't get rid of the 24 hour clock because it is
tied so closely with the circle. In fact, 24 hours is *perfect*
because it is the lowest number that keeps the special angles of
trigonometry as integers:
2 hours -> 30 degrees
3 hours -> 45 degrees
4 hours -> 60 degrees
6 hours -> 90 degrees
What we *really* ought to do is to switch our whole mathematics to
base 12 so that instead of a 24 hour circle (where each hour is pi/12
radians), we could say we have a 20 hour circle (and each hour is
pi/10 radians).
Do you think we could get the BWMA on board? They've been wanting to
bring back the inch because it has more factors {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12}.
The new SI would have kilo = 12^3 = 1728 (1000 base 12).
Then, while everyone was busy relearning the multiplication table, we
could finally switch to Esperanto, cxu ne? Kompreneble! :)
rocky
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