Re: Operationalize orthogonality
From: Frank Hamersley <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:35:25 GMT
Message-ID: <h_Weg.475$ap3.22_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
>> But if this lab used right "WEIGHT" domain, that allows automatical
>> convert from kilograms to pounds, to represent values and to define and
>> create variables, which contains these values, this problem didn't
>> arise at all.
>>
>> Europians, who use kilogram as default representation, add value what
>> looks like "1". Americans, who use pounds as default representation,
>> see this value as "2,2046". There is no problem here. The problems
>> appear when you miss unit or when you forget about it.
>>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:35:25 GMT
Message-ID: <h_Weg.475$ap3.22_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
David Cressey wrote:
> "U-gene" <grigoriev-e_at_yandex.ru> wrote in message > news:1148987955.443290.54010_at_y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> But if this lab used right "WEIGHT" domain, that allows automatical
>> convert from kilograms to pounds, to represent values and to define and
>> create variables, which contains these values, this problem didn't
>> arise at all.
>>
>> Europians, who use kilogram as default representation, add value what
>> looks like "1". Americans, who use pounds as default representation,
>> see this value as "2,2046". There is no problem here. The problems
>> appear when you miss unit or when you forget about it.
>>
> > Or when you forget that Americans use comma and point differently than > Europeans, when writing numbers.
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Or when you realise Americans have no idea at all about the rest of the world and (i) couldn't even contemplate that the creator of the data would express it in units local to the writer and (ii) even know what those units would be!
</UnfairGeneralisationNot>
Apologies to those readers who are intelligent enough not to be offended - we all have traits in our "national" psyche that make us cringe quite reasonably at faux pas like this.
Cheers, Frank. Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 14:35:25 CEST