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Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
WAYNE JOHNSON (ciacon@ix.netcom.com)
16 Oct 1995 07:27:08 GMT
Mike Fee writes:
>
>ciacon@ix.netcom.com (WAYNE JOHNSON) redefines the world with the
comment:
>>>> 60 killometers per hour = 1 killometer per minute.
>>> That is "kilometres".
>> Not in the Americas, or in Europe, except Britain. You're from
New
>> Zealand? Correct the spelling down there, will you?
>> Get with the rest of the world!
>
>Sorry Wane, but a "meter" is a large blake bakelite box with a
>number of large knobs, a semicircle of little numbers around the edge
>and a rotating needle which can point at them. Well, OK, these days it
>is probably a small plastic box with an LCD display, but you get the
>picture?
>
>Consider also, Whayn; a "metre", and that is exactly how the French
>spell it (they should know), is a thing about 1 650 763.73 times the
>wavelength (in vacuum) of a particular electronic transition in the
>element Krypton. It is also roughly the distance you can run in about
>one tenth of a second.
>
>Be aware Whein, that "kilo" (derived from the Greek) is the official
>SI unit prefix to denote 1000 units.
>
>For your information Wain "killo" isn't yet anything - (this of course
>gives you the freedom to define it as you desire, but it is to late to
>patent the term as you have already published it).
>
>Thus Wayn: "kilometre" is 1000 metres - or about 6/10 miles for the
>metrically challenged; "kilometer" consists of a large number of
>measuring instruments (although I wouldn't be averse to the notion
>that it could be considered as an alternative spelling of the former);
>"killometer" is undefined (as is be atttometer, femmtogram,
>piccosecond, nannovolt, miccrokelvin, miillicandela, cenntimole,
>decciradian, deccasteradian, deccanewton, hecctojoule, meggawatt,
>giggapascal, terracoulomb, pettafarad and exxamaxwell, ...pant, pant,
>pant...) and it is certainly not 1000 of anything.
>Need I say more?
>
>Mike
Thass al I nede - sum Enzedd twitt teling MEE hau tu spel.
Murkins kan spel az goode az anybuddy. Ime a perfikt xampl.
Iff yu kan't spel, itz knot MYE problom. I hav bin edicatid bye
XPERTZ.
I rezent yore emplikashons 2 tha conntrery. Bye tha wae, tha onnly
theng yu speled ryte wuz tha wurrds en tha lastt perigaf.
Yu gise bin aut en tha midl uv tha oshun 2 lawng.
Wine Jensen
ciacorn@yx.netcim.cum
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