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Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Ben Buckner (buckner@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu)
10 Oct 1995 23:41:50 GMT
Whittet@shore.net (Whittet) wrote:
>In article <45ce1j$kgt@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de says...
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>>In alt.folklore.computers, lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell) wrot
>>e:
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>>> Quick. You are 6 foot 1 inch tall.
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>>I'm not, I'm 1.75 m :-)
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>Interestingly enough if we still used cubits, feet, palms and fingers
>to measure in, the inch and foot would be easy to make commensurate
>with the metric system.
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>One finger = 3/4 inch
>One inch = 25 mm
>One palm = four fingers = 3 inches = 75 mm
>One hand = four inches = 100 mm
>Four palms = one foot = 12 inches = 300 mm
>Five palms = one cubit = 15 inches = 375 mm
>Six palms = 1 1/2 feet = 18 inches = 450 mm
>Seven palms = one Royal cubit = 21 inches = 525 mm
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>You would be exactly 3 1/3 Royal Cubits high
>although...
>we might say you were five feet nine inches tall
>then you could try and measure up.
My God! You're right! Any measurement when rounded off to the nearest
25 mm IS an integer multiple of 25 mm. (I guess that's the Fundamental
Theorem of Pyramidology isn't it? :) )
Ben Buckner
buckner@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu
http://enuxsa.eas.asu.edu/~buckner
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