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Post by Chopper on Jun 4, 2022 9:19:26 GMT
Wait wait wait. What replaces the concept of 'weekend' in all this? Not sure I can get on board philosophically.
Admittedly I did not read the thread.
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Post by dmukgr on Jun 4, 2022 10:03:20 GMT
I did not read the thread.
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Post by Danno on Jun 4, 2022 10:23:08 GMT
It's not different tiers, it's just a digit position to the right of the decimal point. It's still only 1 number. I can calculate 7/12ths of any number of beats in fewer steps than you can calculate 7/12ths of 7h 37 min. That's because you have to work with two tiers and I won't. You will first have to convert into minutes, then divide by 12 and multiply by 7, then convert back into hours and minutes again. I don't need the first and last steps. Wow, who is his barber? |
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Post by Saul1138 on Jun 4, 2022 10:35:55 GMT
If time is measured decimally, will we have to move Greenwich?
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Post by EMarkM on Jun 4, 2022 10:55:49 GMT
If time is measured decimally, will we have to move Greenwich? Have you not even READ Brexit Phase II? |
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Post by CHPxtreme on Jun 4, 2022 12:34:30 GMT
I'd like to know what is being measured that means that 1/8 of an inch is just right. Is it the case that, for example, a standard gauge for a widget was 1/8th inch when designed, and as a result all widgets are manufactured to the same 1/8 inch measurement. Something that’s bigger than 1/16 and 3/32, but smaller than 3/16? What do you think is measured where 3.175mm is just right? Feet and inches is still a good system for certain applications, divisions care much easier so things like cabinet making can be worked out in your head quickly. I still use inches every day for work, I don’t need to measure to a unicersal standard I just need consistency for the thing I’m doing. I still use barleycorns and paris points too. The entire aerospace industry in the US still uses inches and they seem to manage ok building thousands of Boeings every year I think we're talking about the same thing. If a new widget is designed from scratch in metric then 3mm would be chosen as just right, but with a pain-in-the-ass conversion to 59/500ths of an inch.
Anyway, Googling differences between US and UK inches thows up some interesting results. The standard inch (if the Internet is to be believed) has not been around as long as we thing it has.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jun 4, 2022 12:48:10 GMT
Wait wait wait. What replaces the concept of 'weekend' in all this? Not sure I can get on board philosophically.
Admittedly I did not read the thread.
But the week definitely starts on Monday, not on Sunday. |
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Post by nexus6 on Jun 4, 2022 13:08:19 GMT
We need to decimalise music also.
/Holly
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Post by cubby on Jun 4, 2022 13:11:05 GMT
With this new system only prime number days will be when you can have a day off work. We are currently 2 days away from our next day off.
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Post by Sarfrin on Jun 4, 2022 15:40:56 GMT
With this new system only prime number days will be when you can have a day off work. We are currently 2 days away from our next day off. This is a terrible idea. On a par with a pickle and cheese sandwich. |
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Post by cubby on Jun 4, 2022 16:04:29 GMT
Cheese and pickle sandwiches only on non-prime number days. Lovely.
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Post by gammonbanter on Jun 4, 2022 17:27:34 GMT
Wait wait wait. What replaces the concept of 'weekend' in all this? Not sure I can get on board philosophically.
Admittedly I did not read the thread.
But the week definitely starts on Monday, not on Sunday. In the 'west' it does, in the gulf states it's all over the show. Although I think there are moves to bring it in line with the international weekend. Oh yeah, there were those mental calendars in the old days that started on Sunday? |
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Post by mrharvest on Jun 4, 2022 18:21:38 GMT
Wait wait wait. What replaces the concept of 'weekend' in all this? Not sure I can get on board philosophically. If we had 10 day weeks we could have 3 days off in 10 days. A bit more leisure time than 2 out of 7 but not so drastically much more as 3 out of 7. Surely it's the best solution for everyone. |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jun 4, 2022 19:05:41 GMT
With this new system only prime number days will be when you can have a day off work. We are currently 2 days away from our next day off. But there's no consecutive primes. This is a problem. |
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Post by Saul1138 on Jun 5, 2022 11:46:03 GMT
With this new system only prime number days will be when you can have a day off work. We are currently 2 days away from our next day off. But there's no consecutive primes. This is a problem. 1, 2, and 3 aren’t consecutive? |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jun 5, 2022 14:22:05 GMT
But there's no consecutive primes. This is a problem. 1, 2, and 3 aren’t consecutive? I know a couple mathematicians that would argue that 1 & 2 aren’t really prime. Modern definition is having only 2 distinct divisors, and 2 is a weird prime, being even and all that. |
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Post by cubby on Jun 5, 2022 18:10:35 GMT
There are 72 prime numbers in 365 days, whereas currently we have approximately 104 weekend days. That's an increase in productivity of over 27%!
Come on Boris, do it.
Edit: Wait, my maths is wrong there. It's an increase of 12.2% silly me
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Post by zagibu on Jun 5, 2022 20:22:45 GMT
I don't think 1 was ever considered to be a prime number. 2 being even doesn't make it a weird prime number, it's just that all other even numbers are divisible by the first prime number (which kind of has to be that way if you think about it).
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Post by Saul1138 on Jun 6, 2022 2:17:30 GMT
I have read about 1 after this thread. I always considered it a prime number, that was what we were taught when I studied for my O levels. But it has a convoluted history it seems, quite fascinating to me on its own way.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jun 6, 2022 12:17:52 GMT
Yes, 1 conforms to being only divisible by 1 and itself, which is how it was taught in the 80s iirc. This discussion made me rewatch some videos about the riemann-zeta function. You basically need a 15 minute maths for dummies explanation where you barely get the gist of what they are trying to do.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Jun 6, 2022 14:33:44 GMT
The superior date method really is yyyy-mm-dd. Coders, rise up! I'd rather have yyyy-MM-dd |
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Post by scanline on Jun 6, 2022 15:21:01 GMT
I'd rather have yyyy-MM-dd POSIX type %Y-%m-%d for me. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 6, 2022 15:27:34 GMT
There's an international standard that Sunday is the last day of the week.
The international standard ISO 8601 for representation of dates and times, states that Sunday is the seventh and last day of the week.
But America and Canada are weird.
In the US its partly down to religious reasons.
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Post by scanline on Jun 6, 2022 17:12:54 GMT
In my head Sunday is the start of the week (and 0 in crontab - I know 7 is also valid but only weirdos do that ;-p ).
I blame Craig David.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2022 17:16:07 GMT
They told us in school that Sunday was the beginning of the week. All the calendars reflect that.. but Saturday and Sunday are considered the weekend, and most people have those days off, so... Mondy is officially the beginning. I guess.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 7, 2022 1:34:17 GMT
I'd rather have yyyy-MM-dd Ah. japan style. Though they ruin it by having an incredibly confusing alternate system for years based on the reign of the current Emperor. So this is year 4. But Year 1 was only about 8 months, and doing my taxes for that year was a complete bastard! groups.oist.jp/resource-center/japanese-year-converter |
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Post by zagibu on Jun 7, 2022 8:56:35 GMT
You know, for all the clarity and elegance Japan is supposedly known, they sure have a lot of unnecessarily complicated shit going on in their country.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 7, 2022 8:59:43 GMT
The concept of Japanese counting words seems very odd.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 7, 2022 13:16:24 GMT
It's childsplay!
x100 different counters.
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Post by PatrickEwing on Jun 7, 2022 14:51:12 GMT
Metric ftw.
As a machinist making widgets and shit 90% of it is metric but I still get drawings drafted up by the likes of English Electric or Vickers dated back to the 30's and 40's and always wonder why it came to be that 3/32 or 11/64 etc were just right. 2mm -3mm or an M4.5 thread and boom you're in, easy to visualise, measure and to keep tooling for. You get a drawing full of fractions and it takes 5 times as long to decipher.
If that twat brings back Whitworth spanner sizes you're all fucked. Hours upon hours rooting round toolboxes trying to find the right spanner size. It might have made sense to Joseph Whitworth but to a simpleton like me it doesn't yet can I can spot a an 8mm/10mm or 11mm a/f bolt in an instant.
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