Hi,
Dyscalculia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
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Here in the industry sometimes the "Industriezeit" (industry time) is used where one
day has 24 hours and each hour has 100 minutes.
http://www.marco-burmeister.de/helfe...ieminuten.html
Example:
Standard time / "Industriezeit"
6.15 --------------- 6.25
6.30 --------------- 6.50
6.45 --------------- 6.75
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Should I see her again?
Is she pregnant?
Best regards,
Luciano
Chris,
Similar things happen all over the world; as something similar could have been to you also.
The important thing is; you two have been able to discuss, not fight.
I think you should see her again.
BTW; She is only quarter century old !
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"If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital." Napoleon Bonaparte
Chris
I dont think your date is confused; she seems to have a higher intelligence. Artificial intelligence with super humans having coded the real time interpreter. Think Einstein here and you'll see where I'm getting. Think hard enough, what stops 20 mins being a quarter hour? Pose this to a mathemagician and he will sure enough come up with an equation to prove that 20mins = quarter hour.
On a positive note, I think you'll learn a few new things hanging around the new date. Good luck
Jerson
Maybe...just maybe...in a few hundred thousand years, as the moon pulls away in it's orbit, and the tidal forces drag on Earth's rotation, 20 minutes as we know them today, will actually become a quarter of an hour, which will mean an 80 minute hour, but by then, I'm sure we'll have redefined units of time.
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OK, so she's not a rocket scientist, but how does she look? Is she fun to be with?
Can she carry on a reasonably intelligent conversation without minor math problems?
If you were to marry her, could you return 5 hours late, and blame it on planetary rotation,
lunar shift, or other stellar events..;o}
My wife almost fell out of her chair after reading a few of the responses here.
Thanks for sharing. For sure entertaining stuff...;o}
Time posted: 25 cents after 6 o'clock.
Last edited by Bruce; - 28th January 2008 at 18:03. Reason: Kant spelll stuff ryte.
“True Military Time”
I think, true military time (hours and 100th of hours) used to be divided into 100 pieces to an hour
That’s where the saying: “Oh-eight-hundred“ came from:
Oh-eight-hundred hours
fourteen hundred hours
It would be written with a decimal (.) point and not a colon (
Hours on a “base one hundred” not a “base sixty” system.
Similar to what Luciano showed us.
So she is closer to a rocket scientist than we are!
Also if she works for a payroll company, they divide time with decimal system too.
I would keep her!
If you guys could discuss such an “early learned” impression and not fight, she is a keeper.
Besides think of all the other interesting miscommunications you would have.
-Adam-
Ohm it's not just a good idea... it's the LAW !
The French Republican Calendar or French Revolutionary Calendar is a calendar
proposed during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about
thirteen years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days in 1871.
The first day of each year was that of the autumnal equinox. There were twelve months, each
divided into three ten-day weeks called décades. The tenth day, décadi, replaced Sunday as
the day of rest and festivity. The five or six extra days needed to approximate the solar or
tropical year were placed after the months at the end of each year.
Each day was divided into ten hours, each hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal
minute had 100 decimal seconds. Thus an hour was more than twice as long as a conventional
hour; a minute was slightly longer than a conventional minute; and a second was slightly
shorter than a conventional second. Clocks were manufactured to display this decimal time,
but it did not catch on and mandatory use was officially suspended April 7, 1795, although
some cities continued to use decimal time as late as 1801.
More about that here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
Vive la France!
Best regards,
Luciano
when flying, airtime is counted to one decimal place. its read off a HOBBS meter (that counts engine run time in decimal hours) and is recorded in the log book as decimal hours.. its a little wierd to get used too when your trying to calculate it from a regular clock since every 0.1 is 6 minutes....
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