02-10-2018, 05:43 PM
(02-10-2018, 03:57 PM)Ulvetanna_imp Wrote: Thinking of units of measurement; km/hr is a mixed metaphor. Using miles and hours is a good example of a fully arbitrary display of rate. It's also suggestive of Imperial units or avoirdupois, political anathema, no? Why not divide the clock into a decimal system as well? Then we'd really be onto something, a neutral way to give a speeding ticket.
We could have 100 time units per day, each split into 100 units and so on.
25 km per 0.01 days would be just over 100 km/hr. Could be simplified by calling it 25,000 metres/centidiems which would be 25,000 metres per 1/100th of a day, vernacular being,
"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"No, Officer."
"You were doing 50k!"
Translates to 50,000 metres per centidiem, about 200 km/hr.
pdedse can check my math, lol.
It would only take a couple hundred years for the schools to adopt the new system.
Well...I might have used a calculator.
(02-10-2018, 03:57 PM)Ulvetanna_imp Wrote: Thinking of units of measurement; km/hr is a mixed metaphor. Using miles and hours is a good example of a fully arbitrary display of rate. It's also suggestive of Imperial units or avoirdupois, political anathema, no? Why not divide the clock into a decimal system as well? Then we'd really be onto something, a neutral way to give a speeding ticket.
We could have 100 time units per day, each split into 100 units and so on.
25 km per 0.01 days would be just over 100 km/hr. Could be simplified by calling it 25,000 metres/centidiems which would be 25,000 metres per 1/100th of a day, vernacular being,
"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"No, Officer."
"You were doing 50k!"
Translates to 50,000 metres per centidiem, about 200 km/hr.
pdedse can check my math, lol.
It would only take a couple hundred years for the schools to adopt the new system.
Still waiting for metric to take.
Funny-strange...I've lived on/off in Costa Rica over the years where my wife is from. Nearly everything is metric, km, kg, meters, cm, etc, for signs, match calculations, distances, etc. But....we built a house down there and whenever we had a carpenter help with this or that, all short measurements were in inches, halves, 1/4, 3/8, 5/16...but then if they got beyond a a couple of yards, back to meters. House size was in sq meters, but they would measure a shelf in inches...36 pulgadas (inches), the guy would say, "casi un metro" (almost a meter). Maybe their tape measures only had inches? I know they can calculate inches / centimeters back and forth as if they're reciting the alphabet.