Stan, Han sirs:
Yes to SI and ISO 8601!
Alternatives are sought/recommended in the absense of a viable solution in
sight.
Why go from base 10 to base 12 when the binary system is the most
efficient numbering system.
Why change the base system? Solutions I propose are NOT for clock alone, its
long term implcations in Reform of the Calendar too. Please see:
http://www.brijvij.com/bb-ESR_div6-Cal.Reform.pdf; and its format at:
http://www.brijvij.com/bbv_Gen8Cal.doc
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: "STANLEY DOORE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:39173] Re:Metric clock must be 24 hours
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:55:28 -0400
Why go from base 10 to base 12 when the binary system is the most efficient
numbering system. It would be better to go to the octal system since it
is an integer in the binary system.
Regards, Stan Doore
----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 1:46 PM
Subject: [USMA:39166] Re:Metric clock must be 24 hours
Changing from base 10 to base 12? Do you know that we would have to start
from scratch? And the cost of it would be mind boggling.
This divisibility is too small an advantage to justify such mayhem and
havoc. Using metric allows me to divide up to 1/4 (0.25) as well. No way.
No metric clock on one hand, no duodeciomal maths on the other! Yes to SI
and ISO 8601!
Datum: 23/07/07 02:50 PM
Van: "Rocky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aan: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
CC:
Onderwerp : [USMA:39158] Metric clock must be 24 hours
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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