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Re: sign conventions and units.
From: Geoff Kuenning
Date: 2001 Apr 23, 12:18 AM
From: Geoff Kuenning
Date: 2001 Apr 23, 12:18 AM
> > But wouldn't it be nice if the French had done the
> > right thing in the 18th century?
As I recall, the French tried to take care of time and the calendar as
well as revamping physical measurements. But they screwed up so badly
that their ideas didn't get adopted. Two things kept them from
revamping the calendar: first, they named the months after French
weather ("rainy", "sunny", etc.). Second, they forgot about the
mystical significance of the number 7 in the Christian week.
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Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/
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