[SBE] Timekeeping Standard [was RE: UTC Time Standard]

[Edwin Bukont]

Folks who insist on metric divisions are what is bi-polar!!  While metric fits a sort of feel-good niceness, it is not necessarily more accurate.  Look at celsius.  while 0 and 100 are convenient, a sort of scientific 'politically correct' gradients for water's state, the fact is that deg-F is nearly twice as accurate because it has more divisions than deg-C for going from frozen to boiling.  metric may be easier to teach or understand, but that does not make it more accurate.

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From: A9xw at cs.com
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:33:46 -0400
To: sbe at sbe.org
Subject: Re: [SBE] Timekeeping Standard [was RE: UTC Time Standard]

As with most absolute values, time zero can only be approxximated by infinite division my 2. and then agreeing that the last division is indivisible. The zero value is approachable but not achieveable. Much like trying to find a magnetic monopole by dividing a magnet by 2 an infinite number of times. The monopole has never been found, even at the smallest division the magnet is still bi-polar. 


Henry
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