Chinese supercomputer named world's fastest

[rickman]

On Nov 19, 5:15 am, John G <greent...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

kreed used his keyboard to write :

On Nov 19, 7:39 pm, "Meindert Sprang" <m...@NOJUNKcustomORSPAMware.nl
wrote:
"Ignacio G. T." <igtorque.rem...@evomer.yahoo.es> wrote in
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El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribi :
Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with metres,
kilograms and litres

Maybe they did it the Canadian way: have bolts with metric heads and
imperial threads in an effort to keep everyone happy...

Have seen that sort of thing in Australia too.  The format of
expressing the dimensions are often (say) 3/8" x 20mm

bolts sold in this format are common, especially in those little
blister packs at hardware stores.

That's because the diameter and thread form  are an old
imperial"standard", Whitworth, whereas the length is in the country
accepted measurment standard.

If you buy metric bolts both the lengh and diameter will be metric.

Yeah, but they won't go into imperial holes. BTW, isn't Whitworth an
entirely separate standard from the "standard" imperial standard? I
seem to recall that Whitworth was not used much by the time my
brother's MGA was made. Looking at Wikipedia they say the thread for
mounting cameras to tripods is a Whitworth.

Is Whitworth still used much?

Rick

 

[Tauno Voipio]

On 19.11.10 4:16 , rickman wrote:

On Nov 19, 5:15 am, John G<greent...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
kreed used his keyboard to write :

On Nov 19, 7:39 pm, "Meindert Sprang"<m...@NOJUNKcustomORSPAMware.nl
wrote:
"Ignacio G. T."<igtorque.rem...@evomer.yahoo.es> wrote in
messagenews:ic3bno$2u1$1@news.eternal-september.org...

El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribi :
Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with metres,
kilograms and litres

Maybe they did it the Canadian way: have bolts with metric heads and
imperial threads in an effort to keep everyone happy...

Have seen that sort of thing in Australia too. The format of
expressing the dimensions are often (say) 3/8" x 20mm

bolts sold in this format are common, especially in those little
blister packs at hardware stores.

That's because the diameter and thread form are an old
imperial"standard", Whitworth, whereas the length is in the country
accepted measurment standard.

If you buy metric bolts both the lengh and diameter will be metric.

Yeah, but they won't go into imperial holes. BTW, isn't Whitworth an
entirely separate standard from the "standard" imperial standard? I
seem to recall that Whitworth was not used much by the time my
brother's MGA was made. Looking at Wikipedia they say the thread for
mounting cameras to tripods is a Whitworth.

Is Whitworth still used much?

Rick

Yes - at least in camera bottoms.

Otherwise, it is so coarse that it is time to follow the dinosaurs.

I'm not too fond of French inventions, but the metric system is
quite practical, especially as the Germans have put some order
into it (DIN = Das ist Norm).

--

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

 

[Rod Speed]

rickman wrote:

On Nov 19, 5:15 am, John G <greent...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
kreed used his keyboard to write :

On Nov 19, 7:39 pm, "Meindert Sprang"
m...@NOJUNKcustomORSPAMware.nl> wrote:
"Ignacio G. T." <igtorque.rem...@evomer.yahoo.es> wrote in
messagenews:ic3bno$2u1$1@news.eternal-september.org...

El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribi :
Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one
British, one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and
diplomacy as of engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with
metres, kilograms and litres

Maybe they did it the Canadian way: have bolts with metric heads
and imperial threads in an effort to keep everyone happy...

Have seen that sort of thing in Australia too. The format of
expressing the dimensions are often (say) 3/8" x 20mm

bolts sold in this format are common, especially in those little
blister packs at hardware stores.

That's because the diameter and thread form are an old
imperial"standard", Whitworth, whereas the length is in the country
accepted measurment standard.

If you buy metric bolts both the lengh and diameter will be metric.

Yeah, but they won't go into imperial holes.

BTW, isn't Whitworth an entirely separate standard from the "standard" imperial standard?

Nope, there is no such animal as that last.

I seem to recall that Whitworth was not used
much by the time my brother's MGA was made.

Thats just plain wrong.

Looking at Wikipedia they say the thread for
mounting cameras to tripods is a Whitworth.

Is Whitworth still used much?

Depends what you call much. Certainly most pom industry has sunk beneath the waves now.

 

[F Murtz]

David Brown wrote:

On 18/11/2010 22:14, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
On 18.11.2010 22:05, bugalugs wrote:

I dunno three fifths of five eighths of SFA is a fairly accurate
measurement.

And what kind of measure is an "SFA" supposed to be? Why would anyone
particularly need or want three eights of that?


"SFA" is an abbreviation for "sweet <bleep> all" (I hope you don't mind
the <bleep> - there may be children or Americans reading here).

Sweet fanny adams (to be respectable)
In other words, three fifths of five eighths of sweet fanny adams.

Metricate that and you've no idea how much your talking about.

Pardon the metrically biased, but I'm having no idea what you talking
about even _before_ metricating it!

 

[Ignacio G. T.]

El 19/11/2010 16:39, Tauno Voipio escribió:

On 19.11.10 4:16 , rickman wrote:
On Nov 19, 5:15 am, John G<greent...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
kreed used his keyboard to write :

On Nov 19, 7:39 pm, "Meindert Sprang"<m...@NOJUNKcustomORSPAMware.nl
wrote:
"Ignacio G. T."<igtorque.rem...@evomer.yahoo.es> wrote in
messagenews:ic3bno$2u1$1@news.eternal-september.org...

El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribi :
Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one
British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with
metres,
kilograms and litres

Maybe they did it the Canadian way: have bolts with metric heads and
imperial threads in an effort to keep everyone happy...

Have seen that sort of thing in Australia too. The format of
expressing the dimensions are often (say) 3/8" x 20mm

bolts sold in this format are common, especially in those little
blister packs at hardware stores.

That's because the diameter and thread form are an old
imperial"standard", Whitworth, whereas the length is in the country
accepted measurment standard.

If you buy metric bolts both the lengh and diameter will be metric.

Yeah, but they won't go into imperial holes. BTW, isn't Whitworth an
entirely separate standard from the "standard" imperial standard? I
seem to recall that Whitworth was not used much by the time my
brother's MGA was made. Looking at Wikipedia they say the thread for
mounting cameras to tripods is a Whitworth.

Is Whitworth still used much?

Rick

Yes - at least in camera bottoms.

Otherwise, it is so coarse that it is time to follow the dinosaurs.

I'm not too fond of French inventions, but the metric system is
quite practical, especially as the Germans have put some order
into it (DIN = Das ist Norm).

Yes. It's a pity they didn't manage to get rid of 1 day = 24 h * 60
min/h * 60 s/h (though they tried)

 

[Tauno Voipio]

On 22.11.10 4:05 , Ignacio G. T. wrote:

Yes - at least in camera bottoms.

Otherwise, it is so coarse that it is time to follow the dinosaurs.

I'm not too fond of French inventions, but the metric system is
quite practical, especially as the Germans have put some order
into it (DIN = Das ist Norm).


Yes. It's a pity they didn't manage to get rid of 1 day = 24 h * 60
min/h * 60 s/h (though they tried)

The sixty-based time and angle system is probably the
oldest mathematical heritage still in everyday use.

It comes from the 60 -based number system of old
Sumerians.

--

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

 

[Ignacio G. T.]

El 22/11/2010 18:44, Tauno Voipio escribió:

On 22.11.10 4:05 , Ignacio G. T. wrote:

Yes - at least in camera bottoms.

Otherwise, it is so coarse that it is time to follow the dinosaurs.

I'm not too fond of French inventions, but the metric system is
quite practical, especially as the Germans have put some order
into it (DIN = Das ist Norm).


Yes. It's a pity they didn't manage to get rid of 1 day = 24 h * 60
min/h * 60 s/h (though they tried)

The sixty-based time and angle system is probably the
oldest mathematical heritage still in everyday use.

It comes from the 60 -based number system of old
Sumerians.

Yes. This, in turn, seems to derive from 12-based number systems. Twelve
is the number of phalanges in the four fingers of one hand (the thumb of
the same hand being used to count them). You can count five consecutive
rounds of twelve using the four fingers plus thumb of the other hand to
remember each round. Thus, 12 * 5 = 60. Of course, this is all
speculative. If we had four phalanges in each finger, instead of three,
we would be more fluent in hexadecimal

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2010-11-20, F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote:

David Brown wrote:
On 18/11/2010 22:14, Hans-Bernhard BrĂśker wrote:
On 18.11.2010 22:05, bugalugs wrote:

I dunno three fifths of five eighths of SFA is a fairly accurate
measurement.

And what kind of measure is an "SFA" supposed to be? Why would anyone
particularly need or want three eights of that?


"SFA" is an abbreviation for "sweet <bleep> all" (I hope you don't mind
the <bleep> - there may be children or Americans reading here).

Sweet fanny adams (to be respectable)

in that violence is more respectable than sex?

In other words, three fifths of five eighths of sweet fanny adams.

Taking fractions of a unit named after a child who was cut into pieces by her
murderer?

Ironic.

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[Jasen Betts]

On 2010-11-19, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, but they won't go into imperial holes. BTW, isn't Whitworth an
entirely separate standard from the "standard" imperial standard?

standard imperial UNC and UNF ?
BSW (whitworth) BSC (whitworth for cycles, obsolete)
BSP (UK plumbing, and AUS, NZ etc.. )
NPT (US plumbing)

I
seem to recall that Whitworth was not used much by the time my
brother's MGA was made. Looking at Wikipedia they say the thread for
mounting cameras to tripods is a Whitworth.

Is Whitworth still used much?

other than camera mounts I know of no new equipment that uses it.


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[F Murtz]

Jasen Betts wrote:

On 2010-11-19, rickman<gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:


Yeah, but they won't go into imperial holes. BTW, isn't Whitworth an
entirely separate standard from the "standard" imperial standard?

standard imperial UNC and UNF ?
BSW (whitworth) BSC (whitworth for cycles, obsolete)
BSP (UK plumbing, and AUS, NZ etc.. )
NPT (US plumbing)

I
seem to recall that Whitworth was not used much by the time my
brother's MGA was made. Looking at Wikipedia they say the thread for
mounting cameras to tripods is a Whitworth.

Is Whitworth still used much?

other than camera mounts I know of no new equipment that uses it.


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Hardware shops still sell loads of whitworth most gutter screws and nuts
are still whitworth for instance