Re: Strange Maths (was Re: Why not 13 months?)

Kai Henningsen (kai@khms.westfalen.de)
22 Jul 1995 15:12:00 +0200

jvolin@panix.com wrote on 20.07.95 in <3umun5$flu@panix.com>:

> Similar to the present day world standard of electrical voltage - 110,
> 120,220,240, and numerous variations of the above. Also standards like Hz
> in alternating current - 50Hz, 60Hz. Or international standards in

Stop for a second and consider why you can tell this as you do ...

> In thousands of years, will historians and archeologists ponder as to how
> a civilization able to construct artifacts that demand a high degree of
> engineering skill could do so, with no basic worldwide standards of
> measurement?

... maybe because we _do_ have these standards?

A standard of measurement is _not_ having the same AC frequency
everywhere. It is having the same value for 1 Hz everywhere, so you can
specify a device for 50 or 60 Hz.

You're just using the standards you claim don't exist.

Kai

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