From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e927c332cabaf8f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: Loss of Mars Climate Orbiter due to units of measurment conf Date: 1999/10/25 Message-ID: <38147DBD.8214F32C@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 540362398 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: news@icg.raytheon.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 940867015 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:56:55 CDT) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:56:55 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > Actually, you can't "choose" what units the fundamental constants > > are in. They are decided on by an international body and the method > > of measurement, the units used, the accuracy, etc are all part of > > the published value. > .. > > I wouldn�t quite say that. Fundamental constants like the gravitational > constant or the speed of light cannot be decided on and no one may > decide, how they are to be measured. Oh, yeah? The Indiana legislature once "decided" that Pi equals 3.0... (Or is that "urban legend"?)