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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,edad7a168517ff4e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: pascal.martin@iname.com.nospam Subject: Re: :-) A Brand-New Language! :-) Date: 2000/04/07 Message-ID: <4kgH4.7956$JE2.82630@typhoon.we.rr.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 607900529 References: <38e56e47@excalibur.gbmtech.net><38E636F9.D15710EA@quadruscorp.com><38E638A4.D86E0725@quadruscorp.com><38E7924F.FD170A14@quadruscorp.com><8c8016$iqk$1@nnrp1.deja.com><8c9saa$j79$1@nnrp1.deja.com><38e8ab71$1@excalibur.gbmtech.net><8cai6u$bf6$1@nnrp1.deja.com><38E8E738.45EE0CD5@hello.nl><8cicn3$20k$1@nnrp1.deja.com><38ECEF2E.1696FF75@hello.nl> X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.we.rr.com 955093376 24.130.44.166 (Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:42:56 PDT) Organization: Road Runner NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:42:56 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I disagree: hard sciences are mostly using the milli-second, micro-second, nano-second and pico-seconds units. Not counting astronomy that uses both 10**-(any big number here) seconds and 10**(any big number here) years values, with no unit to avail. As such, the narrow edge that is represented by the interval 1 year .. 1 second is too meaningless to consider seriously. 8-) Just a bizarre catastrophe. In article <38ECEF2E.1696FF75@hello.nl>, Karel Thoenissen wrote: > Robert Dewar schreef: > > [...] > >> >> Interesting to mention metrics units in the one area (times >> and dates) where metric proposals have never succeeded in >> any country :-) > > Touch� (-8 ---------------------------------------------------------- Pascal F. Martin, meaningless being.