[gameprogrammer] Re: Juan Carlos Cazar is out of the office.

  • From: "Alan Wolfe" <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 11:08:00 -0700

"Unfortunatly a year has 365 days not 100 that would be much easier"

Thats a good point and I'd bet that's where the non-metric system came from;
coming from necesity and usefulness instead of mathematical purity (ie 1
foot = the length of a persons foot on average, measuring horses in "hands"
etc) (:

It seems that some parts of science and math have always been at odds with
the natural world, trying to make mountains into cones, cuts of wood into
perfect rectangles, making the world into a perfect globe.

But then again there are things like fractals, neural networks and fuzzy
logic that try to work within the realities of the universe instead of
trying to get those realities to fit into man made aproximations so who
knows, maybe some day we'll be saying "Wow I can't believe we still use the
metric system!"


On 10/9/06, Christoph Harder <shadowomf@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 

Thanks for the explanation of this am/pm-thing.

Luckily in germany we use almost everywhere metric formats, only for
rims and displays we use inch.
Unfortunatly a year has 365 days not 100 that would be much easier :)


Bob Pendleton wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 07:55 -0700, David Cornell wrote:
>
>> I'm American and I can't understand why we had to be so different and
>> use our own systems of measure instead of Metric.
>>
>
> Oh, it is weirder than most people imagine. But, since 1893 all US
> weights and measures are defined in terms of the metric system. So we
> can at least convert from one system to the other.
>
>
>>   Honestly, I think just keeping everything convertible by multiples
>> of 10 would be FAR easier.  I still need a chart to tell me how many
>> pints are in a gallon.  Oh well, wishing and wondering don't change
>> anything.
>>
>
> I agree completely. President Carter tried very hard to convert the US
> to metric. That was when we started getting metric sizes and weights on
> things you buy at the store. He tried to get speed limits posted in KPH
> and MPH, but that didn't last long. And, for a while the speedometers in
> cars had scales in MPH and KPH, but that eventually went away.
>
> We will only change when we are forced by economic necessity to change.
>
>               Bob Pendleton
>


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