On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28 Mar 2000, Lars Clausen wrote: > >> So do we go with Knuth, PostScript or ATA? Units are such fun. And I >> haven't even brought the six different European points into it:) > > The Babylonian civilisation has collapsed since quite a few years. Not in CS, it hasn't :) > Let's drop those bizarre multipliers ; milimetres (or micrometres, if we > want to keep values integer) and powers of ten are good enough, and > computer friendly enough :-) [at least for internal processing. Support > for legacy units in the UI is not a problem, is it ?] We're definitely going to stick to centimeters internally. But we do need support for legacy units in the UI, and we need to agree on a definition there. > (Well, in fact, we should develop our own set of units, based on a > 1/16384 of the length of a meridian, with powers of two everywhere. No, > just kidding.) If *I* were to define a new set of units, it'd be based on the speed of light and the size of the hydrogen atom. Now *those* are truly universal standards. But I like the idea of it being binary. Decimal systems are for wussy hairless monkeys:) -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause) | H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I | Retainer of Sir Kegg will defend to the death your right to say it." | of Westfield --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | Chaos Berserker of Khorne
