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Re: Structure without a tag

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On 10/18/2011 11:43 AM, gwowen wrote:
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>> The CGS system does not make the speed of light 1. You're thinking of
>> Plank units.
> 
> That's why carpenters are able to order materials using dimensionless
> numbers like "2 lots of 4 by 2" and "3 lots of 6 by 4".  They're using
> Plank units.

How do they keep track of (and use) such small pieces? :-)

Those numbers are not dimensionless, they just have units that are
implicit as a matter of custom.

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Structure without a tag Максим Фомин <maxim@maxim-fomin.ru> - 2011-10-15 13:20 -0700
  Re: Structure without a tag Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-15 17:16 -0400
    Re: Structure without a tag Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> - 2011-10-16 15:19 +0100
      Re: Structure without a tag Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-16 10:30 -0400
      Re: Structure without a tag Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-16 13:54 -0700
      Re: Structure without a tag Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-10-16 22:09 +0000
        Re: Structure without a tag Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-16 18:29 -0400
          Re: Structure without a tag "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-10-16 23:55 +0100
            Re: Structure without a tag blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-10-16 17:31 -0700
          Re: Structure without a tag James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-16 20:05 -0400
            Re: Structure without a tag Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-17 17:02 +0000
              Re: Structure without a tag James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-17 13:53 -0400
                Re: Structure without a tag Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-17 13:38 -0500
                Re: Structure without a tag Максим Фомин <maxim@maxim-fomin.ru> - 2011-10-17 22:28 -0700
                Re: Structure without a tag gordonb.b1148@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-10-18 03:04 -0500
                Re: Structure without a tag Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-18 01:37 -0700
                Re: Structure without a tag James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-18 07:10 -0400
                Re: Structure without a tag gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-18 08:43 -0700
                Re: Structure without a tag James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-18 11:55 -0400
                Re: Structure without a tag "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-10-18 17:18 +0100
                Re: Structure without a tag Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-10-18 15:09 -0600
                Re: Structure without a tag Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2011-10-18 08:59 -0700
                Re: Structure without a tag James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-18 12:54 -0400
                Attributions (was Re: Structure without a tag) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-18 11:48 -0700
                Re: Structure without a tag Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2011-10-18 16:20 -0500
    Re: Structure without a tag Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-24 18:05 -0800
  Re: Structure without a tag Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-15 16:30 -0700
  Re: Structure without a tag Jean-Christophe <5.d@free.fr> - 2011-10-16 09:54 -0700

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