Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-07 Thread James Cloos
Bruce == Bruce Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: back around 1954 or so. Bruce The change occurred in July 1959. I usually remember things abstractly or aurally, but that appears to be a visual (mis-)remembrance. ;-/ Thanks for the (time) correction. :-) -JimC -- James Cloos [EMAIL

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-04 Thread Didier Juges
Hi Said, Thanks for the correction. Now I recall... That's what happens when shooting from the hip without proper backup :-) Didier KO4BB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/3/2007 19:29:25 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An Arianne 5 rocket had to be

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-04 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:46:57 EDT Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Said, In a message dated 4/3/2007 19:29:25 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An Arianne 5 rocket had to be destroyed with its cargo when

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: David Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:22:24 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 9:57 PM -0700 4/2/07, Tom Van Baak wrote: 1/meter/39.37 inches = 0.025400051 meters/inch ... The interesting thing is that this result

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Neville Michie
This was sent before, but never seemed to get to the net. It is interesting to look in the front of the International Critical Tables, an encyclopedic set of books containing detailed scientific information about 1920. Every nation, (hundreds of them) had their own

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Peter Vince
Now I thought the NTSC frame-rate was reduced so that the line frequency was an exact sub-multiple (1/286) of the sound subcarrier at 4.5 MHz, and hence sidebands of the color subcarrier were equally positioned around the sound carrier. Using exactly 30 Hz frame rate (15750 Hz line rate)

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Enrico Rubiola
Dear all, I have read some weird discussion about measurement units. There is a wonderful book I come across, by Francois Caldarelli You may take a look http://rubiola.org/shared/caldarelli.pdf then it's up to you Best Enrico Rubiola professor of electronics web:http://rubiola.org

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Arnold Tibus
Hello to all, and thank you very much Enrico, a very nice and comprehensive document. There is a book on the market (2005) The Measure of all Things by Ken Alder, Free Press New York, translated version in german (2006) Das Mass der Welt. It tells on about 500 pages quite precise and very

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Palfreyman, Jim L
Are there actually US people on this list who actually continue to advocate the use of non-metric units in their country? Speak up! Well the USA ever go metric? As an Australian, why would I care, you may ask? Well because of the dominance of the US market, some things can be sold here using

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Palfreyman, Jim L wrote: Are there actually US people on this list who actually continue to advocate the use of non-metric units in their country? Speak up! Well the USA ever go metric? As an Australian, why would I care, you may ask? Well because of the dominance of the US market, some

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Hal Murray
The US has been metric since 1988, however the continued use of customary units during the indefinitely long transition time is the problem. Fundamentally it seems there is a lack of political will to place a definite cutoff date on the use of customary units. I have friends who work in

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Hal Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:14:50 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The US has been metric since 1988, however the continued use of customary units during the indefinitely long transition time is the problem

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Chuck Harris
Palfreyman, Jim L wrote: Are there actually US people on this list who actually continue to advocate the use of non-metric units in their country? Speak up! Well the USA ever go metric? As an Australian, why would I care, you may ask? Well because of the dominance of the US market,

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Brooke Clarke
combinations of root diameter and pitch in the metric system? Have Fun, Brooke Clarke w/Java http://www.PRC68.com w/o Java http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/PRC68COM.shtml http://www.precisionclock.com Magnus Danielson wrote: From: Hal Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Standards

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Thomas A . Frank
Are there actually US people on this list who actually continue to advocate the use of non-metric units in their country? Speak up! Of course. Well the USA ever go metric? No. I find it hard to understand why a country as advanced as the US sticks with such an antiquated system. I don't

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Didier Juges
An Arianne 5 rocket had to be destroyed with its cargo when it veered off course because of a faulty conversion from English to metric in the guidance software. What a bummer! I hate it when that happens!!! Didier KO4BB Brooke Clarke wrote: Hi: There was a recent incident when a passenger

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Didier Juges
Thomas A. Frank wrote: Are there actually US people on this list who actually continue to advocate the use of non-metric units in their country? Speak up! Of course. Well the USA ever go metric? No. I find it hard to understand why a country as advanced as the US

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Keith E. Brandt, M.D.
I have read some weird discussion about measurement units. How about weird units? Velocity in attoparsecs (official SI abbreviation apc) per microfortnight? A standard lecture being a microcentury? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strange_units_of_measurement

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-03 Thread Chuck Harris
Hi Brooke, Metric screws are spec'd by major diameter, and the number of mm between the peaks of the threads. English are spec'd by diameter, and the number of threads per inch. A 40TPI screw corresponds to a (1/40) * 25.4 = 0.635 mm pitch. There are standard metric pitches of 0.4, 0.45, 0.5,

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-02 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
David Dameron wrote: Hi all, I just realized that a meter is defined by the speed of light., see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html It is only to 9 significant digits, so if the speed of light (in some controlled environment) is measured more precisely than this, the meter and all

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-02 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: David Dameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [time-nuts] Standards for units Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:45:49 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I just realized that a meter is defined by the speed of light., see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html It is only to 9

[time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-01 Thread David Dameron
Hi all, I just realized that a meter is defined by the speed of light., see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html It is only to 9 significant digits, so if the speed of light (in some controlled environment) is measured more precisely than this, the meter and all other derived length units

Re: [time-nuts] Standards for units

2007-04-01 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
David Dameron wrote: Hi all, I just realized that a meter is defined by the speed of light., see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html It is only to 9 significant digits, so if the speed of light (in some controlled environment) is measured more precisely than this, the meter and all