Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:42:08 +0200 Message-ID: <etPan.5356c610.79e2a9e3.6f5b@szaman.lan>

> The metric system was only invented because the French are bad at doing arithmetic involving 
> fractions. How else would we have needed up with a system in which rerationalizing the  
> mathematics to decimal still resulted in a unit called a “Pascal”

Right! And Newton, and Joule and Farad and Kelvin and Hertz and Coulomb and Weber and Tesla and Becquerel, and.. ;-)

> instead of an intuitive name.

Like a square foot for a good example.

> By that measure we should be calling graviton or gravioli flux “Einsteins”.

I guess they will call it with the name of a Frenchman who eventually explains the gravity phenomenon in an intuitive manner :-)

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