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To: glorgau

Physics jocks, actually. People who study gravimetry and variances in gravity on earth.

It is a “derived” unit, and not part of the SI system, and usually one doesn’t see them used outside of some CivE’s doing quake stuff and the aforementioned physics jocks.

Personally, I never understood the need for such a unit. I’m someone who likes to observe oddball units tho - eg, in the VAX/VMS operating system, the engineer who wrote the login code made the configurable login timeout in “micro-fortnights.” Most people have never heard of a “fortnight,” much less one-millionth of one.


12 posted on 04/01/2011 9:34:43 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: NVDave

1.2096 seconds according to my cheap calculator.


18 posted on 04/02/2011 5:26:32 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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