Re: OT: SI units and precision

2014-01-09 Thread robin
- Original Message - From: "Paul Gilmartin" To: Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 2:29 AM Subject: Re: OT: SI units and precision On 2014-01-08, at 08:10, Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote: I need correcting before the picking starts :) That's only about 7 tons of hard pressed snow. mak

Re: OT: SI units and precision

2014-01-09 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Surely it is in the nature of assembler programmers to examine the minutia of everything? Or should that be left to microcode programmers? i -- Original Message -- Received: 10:48 AM COT, 01/09/2014 From: Kurt LeBesco To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: OT: SI units and prec

Re: OT: SI units and precision

2014-01-09 Thread Ian S. Worthington
My God. Finally, after 15 years, an explanation! It seems you're quite correct! Thank you! http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting i -- Original Message -- Received: 10:33 AM COT, 01/09/2014 From: Paul Gilmartin To: ASSEMBL

Re: OT: SI units and precision

2014-01-09 Thread Kurt LeBesco
What has this got to do with assembler? If you're lonely get a dog or at least argue the merits of ASCII vs EBCDIC or maybe one implementation of floating point vs the others. It's not my intent to be unkind here as this forum has great value. Me thinks we beat these sort of topics into the ground!

Re: OT: SI units and precision

2014-01-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-01-08, at 08:10, Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote: > I need correcting before the picking starts :) > >> That's only about 7 tons of hard pressed snow. > make that 20..40 tons (~300..600kg/m3) > >> ...you would need 70,000kcal/degree to melt... > If you can't wait until July, 35,000 Cal per d