Michael Miles states:
Come now, can't we be a bit more creative with the units of measure? I
suggest Palm-Stones instead of Foot-Pounds might be more in keeping with
arcane yet descriptive measures. (70 ft-lbs = 20 palm-stones, 1 palm =
3
inches, 1 stone = 14 pounds).
I considered Barleycorn-Pennyweights but that seemed TOO obscure. (70
ft-lbs = 806400 Bc-Pw)
Any other suggestions?
"Entropy happens!"
Michael D. Miles, PE Consulting Design Engineer
mdmiles@teleport.com (503) 292-1234 FAX: (503) 292-1105
Comment:
It must be a slow day in the consulting business, Mike! But it reminds
me of a coworker who expressed his fuel consumption in reciprocal acres:
mpg = L / V = L/L^3 = L^-2. In current Canadian terms, where we are
supposed to express fuel consumption in litres/100 km, we could use ares
or hectares.
(It's a slow day here, too)
Chuck Vandergraaf
'52 +4
Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada
vandergraaft@aecl.ca
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