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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Is there already an easy fit algorithm? |
| Date | 2017-09-14 19:49 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:53:05 -0700, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 2:27:32 PM UTC-4, lewb...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> It is an imperial *and* a US measure, but calling it out as if these >> are separate definitions of "foot" is ludicrous. No one says "imperial >> foot". No one says "imperial inch". No one says "imperial mile" (though >> there is "nautical mile"). It just isn't a distinction. >> >> A cubic foot is a cubic foot is a cubic foot. You don't say "cubic feet >> (imperial)". >> >> -- >> Lew > > That is just a proper word wikipedia used > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units) to describe it, "British > Imperial" meaning the same as what we know as the English measurement > system. > There is only one unit of measurement known as a foot that I'm aware of, > though as you mentioned there's something called a nautical mile and I > don't know much about measurement systems besides English and Metric. FYI the Nautical mile is widely used in both air and marine navigation along with the knot (1 nautical mph), but both are seldom used outside these areas. The nautical mile is roughly 15% bigger than the imperial measure at 1852m, 6076ft, approximately 1 minute of arc round the earth at sea level at 48 degrees latitude. It counts as an international unit because the ICAO adopted it in 1947, along with the knot for speed, the foot for height and the millibar for pressure, as the navigational units to be used for navigation and communication by civil aviation. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
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Re: Is there already an easy fit algorithm? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-09-15 10:27 +0000
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