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To: AmishDude

Uh-huh. When your wife asks how much gas you have left, do you tell her, "Half a tank" when you mean 0.5^10-1 tank?

Gee, if you could accurately say continental drift is measured in kilometers when it's actually measured in centimeters or fractions of centimeters, why didn't you say it is measured in gigameters or femtometers?

Sorry, you're not fooling anyone. When you estimate a value convention demands giving units to within at most of a factor of 10 or so of the actual value, definitely below a factor of 10^5! Saying it is accurate to say something is measured in kilometers when it is actually measured best in centimeters renders talking about anything but precise values meaningless.


263 posted on 02/28/2006 10:40:54 AM PST by ahayes
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To: ahayes

I think you are confused. "Half a tank" is "One two-thousandths of a kilotank". It is the same thing. If I say that the temperature is 44 degrees Farenheit, that is correct, even if a European does not appreciate the order of magnitude of that measurement and would rather have 6.67 degrees Celsius does not matter. The fact that you cannot see the difference reveals a very narrow and insular point of view.


384 posted on 02/28/2006 1:07:29 PM PST by AmishDude
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