Yes, but different seconds. I learned many years ago to use the RSF (rod-stone-fortnight) system of units. Small errors are much smaller... Don
Jim Lux > On 12/13/11 8:57 AM, Bob Bownes wrote: >> What's metric or Common Measure about seconds? ;) >> >> Bob > > > AN excellent point.. aren't seconds the only unit that is the same in > basically all measurement systems? there's cgs, mks, SI, Imperial, US > Customary, Avoirdupois, etc and they all use seconds. > > > And since this is timenuts.. where did the second originate (I recall a > story about Galileo counting heartbeats for his experiments rolling > balls down ramps... but that sounds a bit too convenient). > > Is it just dividing hours by 60 to get minutes and minutes by 60 to get > seconds (as my daughter was wont to say when learning fractions: curse > those Babylonians) > > http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/2209.pdf > > makes it seem to be Claudius Ptolemy > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- "Neither the voice of authority nor the weight of reason and argument are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind." R. Bacon "If you don't know what it is, don't poke it." Ghost in the Shell Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL Six Mile Systems LLP 17850 Six Mile Road POB 134 Huson, MT, 59846 VOX 406-626-4304 www.lightningforensics.com www.sixmilesystems.com _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.