Re: Operationalize orthogonality
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:10:00 GMT
Message-ID: <YmYeg.15045$A26.352934_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
>>But if this lab used right "WEIGHT" domain, that allows automatical
>>convert from kilograms to pounds, to represent values and to define and
>>create variables, which contains these values, this problem didn't
>>arise at all.
>>
>>Europians, who use kilogram as default representation, add value what
>>looks like "1". Americans, who use pounds as default representation,
>>see this value as "2,2046". There is no problem here. The problems
>>appear when you miss unit or when you forget about it.
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:10:00 GMT
Message-ID: <YmYeg.15045$A26.352934_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
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.
Or when you forget that kilograms measure mass while pounds measure force. Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 16:10:00 CEST