[sdiy] HP 202C Low Frequency Oscillator

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] HP 202C Low Frequency Oscillator
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:19:30 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0407021559360.19839 at atbode100.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

Rainer,

> > Even US is going metric. More and more components is metric and IPC make
> > their standards with metric unit. Time to learn about mm and the mili
> > and nano- prefixes.
> 
> Oh, the scaling even works with imperial units. There's nothing which
> prevents people from using milligallons or nanoinches.

Actually, nano is the prefix which seems not to catch on as well as pico has,
which is odd. So doing 2 nanoinches isn't as likely as 2000 picoinches or
0.002 microinches :-P Let alone 200 nanoinches would be 0.2 microinches, so you
see how ugly scene it is...

> However, they might prefer 1.302 teaspoons or 1.024 fluid drams over a
> milligallon -- assuming, that I got the conversion right ;-)
> 
> Although European and thus metric to the core, I always had a weak spot
> for the imperial units because of all those nice fractions. Shifting
> decimal points around is not half as much fun.
> 
> Not to speak of the advantage of 22fl.oz beers over 500ml ones :-)

A US pint is 19 fl.oz where as a British pint is 22 fl.oz as I recall it. So,

> Rainer (Wait a minute... Fluid DRAMs!?)

Rainer, let's keep to the fluid beer and some nice synth-discussions, okay? ;O)

Cheers,
Magnus - longing for a beer (fluid one)