There are 1,209,600 seconds in a fortnight (14days/fortnight x 24
hours/day x 60 min/hour x 60 seconds/min) so the implied error is a bit
less than 1PPM.
Dave
"Experience keeps a dear school ..but a fool learns in no other" ..Ben
Franklin
On 7/13/2012 8:09 AM, Steve wrote:
But what if a leap second occurs during the fortnight the standard is being
set? ;)
Steve
On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:22 AM, "Poul-Henning Kamp"<p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
In message<4fffebec.8030...@embarqmail.com>, Artekmedia writes:
Yes, I'd expect the last non-metric country in the world to go for that :-)
Coulombs per fortnight to be sure :-)
On 7/13/2012 2:40 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message<CAE6XXrjKES2=bpcnyzocbxfm73+4ztotakuecttaqtsduvr...@mail.gmail.com>
, Will writes:
No practical quantum Ampere so far?
It has always surprised me that the Ampere was not defined in terms of
electron charges per second...
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