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On 12/01/2019 17:18, John Rumm wrote:
On 11/01/2019 13:51, NY wrote:
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SO why isn't the clock metric? I still have my Casio calculator
from the 70s which could work in hrs and mins.

I remember seeing articles in magazines which discussed in all
seriousness whether the world should devise new units of 50 metric
seconds in a metric minute, 50 of those minutes in a metric hour
and 25 metric hours in a day. Or some such calculation which
resulted in a metric second being *reasonably* close to a real
second.

I remember an A level physics practical demo that was screwed up by
some kind of centi minute stopwatch the lab tech gave out...
Basically it meant when it said what we thought was ten seconds had
passed, it had actually only been six.


In my research days, when we were typically running experiments for a
week or two, one of my colleagues suggested that we should use the
microfortnight as a unit of time. (Check out what it corresponds to).

fairly close to a second, but I've never done the arithmetic

Was that a guess? If so, I'm impressed. It actually works out as 1.2
seconds.

No - a memory of a conversation in the late 1960s.

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