Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. | From | Jonathan Amery <> | Date | Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:02:41 +0000 |
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In article <a0133l$2ln$1@cesium.transmeta.com> you write: >And all of us count that way. Oh yes, the English unit is *so* >attuned to nature... this is why we have different measures for dry >volume, wet volume... avoirdupois versus troy weight... >oh yes, energy >is measures in BTUs and power in horsepower... what is the conversion >factor between them (it has the dimension of time?)
I think you've just answered your previous question - there are more than one because its generally more convenient. If you're using horsepower for power then you should probably be using horsepower-hours rather than BTUs (which are an admittedly silly unit for most things).
You have: horsepower hours You want: btu * 2544.4336 / 0.00039301478
>> Finally, Farhenheit units are smaller so that they make more convenient >> divisions: Eg. >Bullsh*t. They seem more natural to you because you're more used to >them. Anyone who hasn't grown up on the system think that Fahrenheit >is the ultimate in lunacy.
Centigrade/Celcius have little to recomend them either - Kelvin is the way forward, or Rankine.
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