This was forwarded to me by my mother-in-law. I checked back to SI to
see if they were the attributed source and found a link to a movie on
the subject as well. Why the original author chose to submit to SI, I
don't know.
Regards,
Charlie H.
http://rense.com/general8/boom.htm
http://www.gpsinf
C. Hotchkiss writes:
> IIRC, 360 degrees is Babylonian in origin. For some reason
> multiples of 12 and the number 360 was very important to them.
I read that it's how they counted on their fingers. Using your thumb,
touch the top third (near the tip) of each finger for 1-4, the middle
third
David Megginson wrote:
>
> C. Hotchkiss writes:
>
> > IIRC, 360 degrees is Babylonian in origin. For some reason
> > multiples of 12 and the number 360 was very important to them.
>
> I read that it's how they counted on their fingers. Using your thumb,
> touch the top third (near the tip) o
> I read that it's how they counted on their fingers. Using your thumb,
> touch the top third (near the tip) of each finger for 1-4, the middle
> third (between the two knuckles) of each finger for 5-8, and the
> bottom third for 9-12. I'm not sure how they combined the second hand
> with that,
> I've always been told that we use base ten because we count on our fingers.
> This has always puzzled me; I've only got eight fingers ... and two thumbs.
>
> 8-)
>
It's all about language, the thumb is also finger.
But which scares me is that I have eleven fingers. Count with me first on
left
If anyone needs a Father's Day card, I made this one for my Dad (one of
those guys who has everything). It's non-flightsim related, but kind of
tech-ish and completely free for use:
http://www.wintergreen.ws/fathersday/present.html
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Flightge
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:03:19 -0400, Theo wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If anyone needs a Father's Day card, I made this one for my Dad (one
> of those guys who has everything). It's non-flightsim related, but
> kind of tech-ish and completely free for use:
>
http://www.wintergreen.ws
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, David Drum wrote:
> England has always been very good at aviation sports but because of
> that they never publicise it in the national press. We have a another
> tradition of inventing sports and beating the world until everyone else
> learns to play it then we end up getting t
Quoth Jon Stockill:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Andy Ross wrote:
>
> > Indeed, Lee rocks. But seriously, someone needs to come to his home,
> > tie him down and teach him Blender so that we can get some colors on
> > these things. And make him do something non-british while you're at
> > it. :)
>
>
> Quoted from www.auntymonkey.com, "An Interview with the [Hot Air Balloon]
> World Chamion David Bareford"::
>
> 8. Why is England so good at ballooning but fairly average at every other sport?
>
> England has always been very good at aviation sports but because of
> that they never publicise i
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 16:36, Major A wrote:
> > Quoted from www.auntymonkey.com, "An Interview with the [Hot Air Balloon]
> > World Chamion David Bareford"::
> >
> > 8. Why is England so good at ballooning but fairly average at every other sport?
> >
> > England has always been very good at aviat
Matthew Johnson writes:
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 16:36, Major A wrote:
> > > Quoted from www.auntymonkey.com, "An Interview with the [Hot Air Balloon]
> > > World Chamion David Bareford"::
> > >
> > > 8. Why is England so good at ballooning but fairly average at every other sport?
> > >
> > > Engl
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