On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Fortune saves the day with essential facts such as: > > 1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's > the law! > > If it comes to obscure units, I always had a great fondness for the > nanocentury: > > %% (fortunes) > How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are > 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, > who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a > nanocentury. > -- Tom Duff, Bell Labs
I prefer metric units, especially ones that are easy to convert to imperial ones. Like the attoparsec. Which is fairly similar to an inch. If you're measuring speeds, you obviously need a time unit to go with your length, I propose wider adoption of the millifortnight - about 20 minutes. the hatter
