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Re: Superman, was: Chicago P.D. TV series--computer usage [message #391238 is a reply to message #391231]

Mon, 24 February 2020 14:56

hancock4
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On Monday, February 24, 2020 at 12:04:18 PM UTC-5, Scott wrote:

>> Not really, when you’ve learned 186,000 miles/sec. Metric is overrated ;-)
>
> Metric has its uses, but there's nothing magical about it. Mostly
> anyone who crows about its decimal nature just hasn't thought about it
> enough (the Babylonians were right). I've spent my life in the USA so
> I'm comfortable with Imperial, but my time has overlapped with the
> time of internationalization, so I'm (nearly) equally comfortable with
> metric. Both share the disadvantage of being invented by humans trying
> to impose some kind of order on a natural world that simply refuses to
> cooperate.

I never understood why time wasn't converted to metric. Would've
been so much easier to have a ten hour day than 24, as well
as decimal sub units.

Also, I never understood the point of centrigrade. Temperature
doesn't get converted to different units, so what is the
advantage of having freezing and boiling at 0 and 100?

Our time clocks recorded the minutes in decimal which made it
easier to calculate.

Burroughs made adding machines which could use a variety of
fractions.

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