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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 01:23 pm
i need to stop reading yahoo
When you realize you have been studying too hard:
The Prototype For Metric Mass Is Shrinking!
The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies.
...yeah. I had a moment of panic--the constant! The constant!, then rememberd, right. This doesn't actually affect me.
Right. I spent the meeting today gleefully changing everyone's age to base four, eight, eleven, and binary. Let me just say, still more productive than sitting through that meeting. Also, I need to check my work. I'm not sure about the four base.
The Prototype For Metric Mass Is Shrinking!
The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies.
...yeah. I had a moment of panic--the constant! The constant!, then rememberd, right. This doesn't actually affect me.
Right. I spent the meeting today gleefully changing everyone's age to base four, eight, eleven, and binary. Let me just say, still more productive than sitting through that meeting. Also, I need to check my work. I'm not sure about the four base.
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From:At the time, when they gave us the Iowa Educational Development Tests, I always tested higher in math than anything else, so I was in some kind of torture chamber gifted math class. Fortunately, the math part of my brain departed for greener pastures at the end of that year (or maybe it just got warped from all the base whatevers) and I thankfully returned to eating topographical maps.
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