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Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:10 pm
by Mad Dan Eccles
Australian cars give you consumption in litres/100 km. I found it easier to grok by doing a mental mpg conversion on the fly!
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:16 pm
by NigelJK
My old Jaguar Sovereign (1993) had a switch on the dash which let me switch between the two systems for the digital readout. The readout could itself be switched between KPH (or MPH in imperial),Km/Litre instant (MPG instant), Km/L Average (MPG average) and Range Km (Range Miles).
As for the numbers I remember that for a long time we Brits resisted the US invasion by calling it a 'financial billion' for 1000 million, which when I come to think of it showed how arrogant our financiers had got, and the rest is, as they say, history.
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:27 pm
by Eric Walch
It would be a good idea for Obama to switch to the continental European numbers. Than he could reduce his
national debt from 16,5 Trillion to just 16,5 Billion overnight.
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:30 pm
by Cody
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:52 pm
by Eric Walch
On the mac we have Widgets. Small programs to do small things. The funny thing about this widgets is that they are written in JavaScript. And that is a language I start to get familiar to.
Default there is a conversion widget were all the conversions are stored in variables. like:
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var Energy = [
{name:'Btus', toBase:linearForm(1055.05585257348), fromBase:invLinForm(1055.05585257348)},
{name:'Calories', toBase:linearForm(4.1868), fromBase:invLinForm(4.1868)},
{name:'Ergs', toBase:invLinForm(10000000.0), fromBase:linearForm(10000000.0)},
{name:'Foot-Pounds', toBase:linearForm(1.3558179483314004), fromBase:invLinForm(1.3558179483314004)},
{name:'Joules', toBase:linearForm(1.0), fromBase:linearForm(1.0)},
{name:'Kilogram-Calories', toBase:linearForm(4186.8), fromBase:invLinForm(4186.8)},
{name:'Kilogram-Meters', toBase:linearForm(9.80665), fromBase:invLinForm(9.80665)},
{name:'Kilowatt-Hours', toBase:linearForm(3600000.0), fromBase:invLinForm(3600000.0)},
{name:'Newton-Meters', toBase:linearForm(1.0), fromBase:linearForm(1.0)},
{name:'Watt-Hours', toBase:linearForm(3600.0), fromBase:invLinForm(3600.0)}
];
In the past I already added even weirder values myself, like the troy once, that was for some reason missing.
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:02 pm
by Thargoid
You bear me to that one 
Vive la linguine!
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:08 pm
by Cody
<chuckles> Those superior units of measurement explained by
a boffin.
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:10 pm
by Smivs
Yes but they haven't heard that the Brontosaurus is no more - it's now the Apatosaurus!
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:00 am
by Diziet Sma
Eric Walch wrote:Only that they talk now about "Great Britain" instead of "England". (Inconsistent name giving because they mean the same)
Umm no.. those are
not the same.. "England" is one country. "Great Britain" consists of three countries, and part of a fourth.
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:36 am
by Mad Dan Eccles
No, Great Britain is three countries. The United Kingdom, on the other hand…
And let's not start on Holland, Netherlands or The Netherlands …
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 8:19 am
by Zieman
England, Holland, Great Lands, United Brit-Holland, Nether Kingdom - What a mess!
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 8:33 am
by Diziet Sma
Mad Dan Eccles wrote:No, Great Britain is three countries. The United Kingdom, on the other hand…
I guess that's what comes of my not being Irish..
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 8:59 am
by Mad Dan Eccles
It was a lot easier when it was all the British Empire…
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:54 am
by Thargoid
Give it a couple of years, with Scottish and Welsh devolution plans from their nationalists and parliaments the whole mess may clear itself up a bit, or at least degenerate into a different one.
Re: Names of long numbers
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:07 am
by Smivs
Home rule for the Isle of Wight!