Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:53 pm
Well in calculus, you generally leave degrees behind. I mean, imagine trying to evaluate from 0 to 360. Instead, 0 to 2pi makes so much more sense.
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:10 pm
Are you arguing about which unit is better...? Isn't that like arguing is it better to walk 10 miles or 16 kilometers?
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:25 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:49 pm
16 km. Its less distance than 10 miles. Poor example ogo.
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:56 pm
10 miles are only 0.58% (93.4 m or 306' 7'') longer than 16 km...LANS wrote:QUOTE (LANS @ Nov 9 2010, 08:49 PM) 16 km. Its less distance than 10 miles. Poor example ogo.
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:21 pm
After walking 10 miles I'll be tired enough that the 0.58% gap will be welcome.pkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Nov 9 2010, 02:56 PM) 10 miles are only 0.58% (93.4 m or 306' 7'') longer than 16 km...
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:23 pm
LANS wrote:QUOTE (LANS @ Nov 9 2010, 08:49 PM) 16 km. Its less distance than 10 miles. Poor example ogo.
...which is the point actuallypkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Nov 9 2010, 08:56 PM) 10 miles are only 0.58% (93.4 m or 306' 7'') longer than 16 km...
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:03 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:23 am
No no! This needs to develop into a discussion of weather the metric system or the inch-pound system is better.ogorass wrote:QUOTE (ogorass @ Nov 9 2010, 10:23 PM) ...which is the point actually
Personaly I am convinced that the metric system makes no sense what so ever and I am prepared to back it by quoting one of my heroes:
"You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."
―Han Solo
From this we can clearly see that a parsec is a measure of time and not of distance as the metric system foolishly claims!
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:39 am
Ah, but the word of God is that the point of the statement is that the Falcon's navigational systems are so good that it can take a shorter route and therefore do it quicker. Also is a parsec a SI unit anyway? I can't remember whether Degrees or Radians or both are standard SI units (Parsec being parallax second of arc iirc).