From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99
Date: 31 Jan 1995 06:18:21 -0500
Date: 1995-01-31T06:18:21-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3gl69t$nm8@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3gf2fd$h0l@felix.seas.gwu.edu
Regarding the idiotic sign on the highway (km to three decimal places):
Clive Cussler in his latest novel (Inca Gold) has DIrk Pitt use metric for
all his measurements ("he looked ahead and about three meters away ...")
Every reference is followed by in parentheses the equivalent US measure
often with excessive decimal places in the same irritating manner
(so for example the above three meters becomes .. three meters (9.7 feet))
The worst case is a reference to square meters which gets translated to
square feet without bothering to notice that the conversion factor needs
to be squared in this case.
I assume it was some idiot copy editor who insisted on this annoying
nonsense.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-01-20 0:25 Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Garlington KE
1995-01-21 0:27 ` Keith Thompson
1995-01-21 17:30 ` Tucker Taft
1995-01-23 15:36 ` Garlington KE
1995-01-24 19:01 ` Robert A Duff
1995-01-25 16:09 ` Michel Gauthier
1995-01-26 1:05 ` Matt Kennel
1995-01-26 20:03 ` David Moore
1995-01-27 14:04 ` Robb Nebbe
1995-01-27 19:03 ` Michel Gauthier
1995-01-29 16:47 ` Michael Feldman
1995-01-30 22:53 ` Jules
1995-02-01 12:51 ` Christopher Costello
1995-01-28 6:06 ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-30 5:21 ` Michael Feldman
1995-01-28 2:32 ` Michael Feldman
[not found] ` <3g94oi$sro@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
1995-01-29 3:36 ` Michael Feldman
1995-01-31 11:18 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
[not found] ` <EACHUS.95Jan27144621@spectre.mitre.org>
1995-01-29 16:53 ` Michael Feldman
1995-01-30 12:54 ` NOthing to do with Ada anymore (Re: Metrics) David Weller
1995-02-02 8:54 ` Fredrick Mbuya
1995-01-30 14:58 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Tarjei Jensen
1995-01-31 9:47 ` request Ada cource plan (was: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99) Sverre Brubaek
1995-02-01 23:33 ` David Weller
1995-01-30 22:59 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Jules
1995-01-26 12:25 ` Olaf Weber
[not found] <3gbs98$47f@network.ucsd.edu>
1995-01-28 13:41 ` paus
1995-01-29 22:30 ` David Weller
1995-01-31 16:10 ` paus
1995-01-30 5:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-31 2:39 ` celier
1995-01-31 10:49 ` Michel Gauthier
1995-01-31 14:39 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-02-01 23:04 ` Matt Kennel
1995-01-31 7:40 ` R_Tim_Coslet
1995-01-30 17:52 ` Peter Hermann
1995-02-01 3:28 ` Michael Feldman
1995-02-01 12:16 ` Peter Hermann
1995-02-01 20:12 ` Robert Firth
1995-02-02 8:34 ` paus
1995-02-08 4:26 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1995-02-01 15:05 CONDIC
1995-02-01 20:01 ` Jim Rogers
[not found] ` <D3E467.MLs@thomsoft.com>
[not found] ` <3h30fs$50a@felix.seas.gwu.edu>
1995-02-06 15:27 ` Robert Dewar
1995-02-07 16:19 CONDIC
1995-02-10 0:51 ` Robert I. Eachus
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