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Article #1717Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?
From: Phil Hobbs
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 16:16
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 16:16
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Eeyore wrote: > > Doing Physics in Imperial measures is NUTS. Never mind that American measures use > the same names but are different ! What a bloody mess ! > > Graham > I dunno--I usually use Gaussian units, because of all those silly epsilon-noughts and mu-noughts you have to worry about in the SI system. God clearly meant us to use Gaussian units, because to engineering accuracy 1 cm = 1 pF. (*) Anyway, you only need the units once the physics is done and you're descending to mere engineering. ;) Cheers, Phil Hobbs (*) God also wants us to use English units, as you can tell from the cosmically revealed fact that 1 attoparsec equals almost exactly 1 decifoot.
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