Felsius - The Obvious Solution to an Age Old Problem

Now we need to convince @bwilson4web to use it...

 

Is he the irresistible force, or the immovable object?

 

Of those choices I would say irresistible force. He is definitely movable.

 

This will probably not heat up the debate much.....

 

If they'd made one centimetre equal to one inch it would have made my life a lot easier. Or maybe not: more layoffs, due to absurd simplicity?

 

Can't we just round pi to 3?

Bob Wilson

 

If you mean in reference to comment about setting the metric centimeter in some sort of direct correlation to the inch: the centimeter, millimeter and all, were pulled out of the air, yeah I know, light waves, some longitude or latitude, but how much of that was needed, and how much was just ego-stroking of the creators. The biggest ego-stroking, this assumption that world would immediately, completely adopt metric, and abandon imperial measure.

Thirty plus years in engineering, metric/imperial conversions were THE biggest hurdle in otherwise smooth jobs; it would get comical: we would convert imperial vendor drawings to metric, do an entire job in metric, hand it over to fabricators, who would return imperial shop drawings.

To make the units were easily translatable at the outset would have been very easy, now not so much.

 

.... not, it should be noted, in absolutely any country in the world outside of the US.

We used to get temperatures in C and F in Britain when I was a kid. But since the 1990s (the 3614s in Fahrenheit), I've never seen anyone use Fahrenheit outside of America (unless they're explaining stuff to Americans).

The only exception is when British people are complaining about how hot it is, because it sounds better in Fahrenheit. "Ooooh, it's in the high 60s. It's so hot I might have to turn the heating off." Yeah, whatevs. It's 19, and it's almost cold enough for a coat.

 

PIN@9. The last four digits? You actually know them???

 

I suspect that was his point. He knows everything.

 

Irrational exuberance.

 

You haven’t noticed irrational people here before now?

 

Sigh.

Not people.

Pi is an irrational number so it does not have a last digit. Or last 4 digits. If ya gotta explain the joke it's not funny.

 

I got the joke. I guess my follow up was not that funny.

 

I liked it.

 

Cultural differences make humour difficult.

 

We already had our pi thread but the persistently weird thing (to me) is you can't accurately measure the circumference of a circle. You just can't. Somehow this tangible thing is more unsettling than not being able to enumerate 'e' (Euler number).

Crank out Taylor's series till the universe ends and you still ain't got it. Only math offers up true infinities and it's pretty spooky.