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| From | Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.dsp |
| Subject | Re: So DC motors are obsolete! |
| Date | 2022-11-16 10:34 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <aeb1bba4-b8c3-6a7f-f61c-e142b19b225e@electrooptical.net> (permalink) |
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eric.jacobsen@ieee.org wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2017 13:56:50 -0500, Tim Wescott > <tim@seemywebsite.really> wrote: > >> On Fri, 12 May 2017 11:09:26 -0400, Randy Yates wrote: >> >>> Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> writes: >>>> [...] >>>> I think that itty bitty brushed motors will be around for a while, at >>>> least until people figure out how to make itty bitty controllers that >>>> are cheaper than itty bitty brushes and commutators. >>> >>> Too funny! Tim, was the term "itty bitty" used in your graduate >>> textbooks? >> >> No. But it should have been. >> >> I couple of decades ago I realized, thanks to a colleague with a PhD, >> that "bazzilion", "ginormous", "teeny", etc., are all valid technical >> terms (meaning, in order, roughly, and in most contexcts, "so many that >> it's not cost effective to enumerate", "so big that it's not cost >> effective to consider the size", and "so small that it's not cost >> effective to consider the size"). >> > > There are measurement units that are commonly used to convey similar > meaning, .e.g., "buttloads", "shit-ton", etc. I've accepted these, > and many other, as legitimate technical terms or units of measurement > for a long time. They seem to be nearly universally accepted, so it > has been neither problematic nor controversial in my experience. Remember Mars Climate Orbiter and the Gimli Glider. You have to specify if it's a metric buttload or an avordupois buttload. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com
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