Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] rant
Posted by
R.L. Wurdack
on 2008-04-06 10:51:29 UTC
Someone fameous (Archimedes Aristotle ???) once tried to edict pi as exactly 3.0 but his circles kept coming up short.
At the risk of starting a metric/inch measurement war . . . One of the big difficulties in getting everyone onto a common standard is the installed base of machinery, equipment, and stuff. Though I have no hard data to support it I might take a wager that when the academics decided that SI was the way to go there was far more machinery, equipment and stuff on this planet that was inches than there was metric.
I personally measure all my stuff in multiples of the yellow wavelength of the emission spectrum of Cesium. (In a neutral gravity field, of course.)
D.
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At the risk of starting a metric/inch measurement war . . . One of the big difficulties in getting everyone onto a common standard is the installed base of machinery, equipment, and stuff. Though I have no hard data to support it I might take a wager that when the academics decided that SI was the way to go there was far more machinery, equipment and stuff on this planet that was inches than there was metric.
I personally measure all my stuff in multiples of the yellow wavelength of the emission spectrum of Cesium. (In a neutral gravity field, of course.)
D.
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Peter Reilley
2008-04-06 07:02:46 UTC
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R.L. Wurdack
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stan
2008-04-06 10:52:38 UTC
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2008-04-06 12:32:54 UTC
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2008-04-07 19:40:34 UTC
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2008-04-07 20:21:26 UTC
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