Re: TI-H:calc 3.5mm plug
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Re: TI-H:calc 3.5mm plug
no noah, actually Fareinheit numbered intervals on his thermometer, before
checking the freezing and boiling temp of water. thats why they became such
ugly numbers.
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M M M I T C HHHHH O O
M M I T C C H H O O
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>From: Noah R Deneau <noahd@juno.com>
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: TI-H:calc 3.5mm plug
>Date: Mon, Oct 25, 1999, 5:35 PM
>
>
> I have to agree on the unnecessary difficulties of the English system. I
> think the Fahrenheit scale was made, however, because Joe Fahrenheit or
> whoever thought that it was dumb to base our temperature scale on water
> and instead based it on his own scale, with 100 and 0 degrees being the
> extremes in temperature bearable to humans at that time. (Personally I
> think 0 is a lot more extreme than 100, but I guess they didn't have A/C
> back then).
>
> -Noah
>
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 03:41:32 +0200 Olle Hedman <oh@hem.passagen.se>
> writes:
>>
>> at least the metric system is logical. :) all the metric units are
>> connected to
>> eachother in nice cubes, quadrats or multiples of 10.
>> a litre for example is 1dm^3 exactly. nice and clean.
>> How can you bare with something as illogical as feet and inches?
>> totally
>> rediculous.
>> and that farenheit thing? what is it based on? the freezing point of
>> mercury?
>> heh..
>> Celsius is 0 at the freezing of water, and 100 at the boiling of
>> water.. and
>> equally stepped in between.. there you have nice logic.
>> btw.. It is your fault the recent mars sond failed. some stupid
>> americans
>> coded in feet and stuff, while the rest of coders used the metric
>> system as
>> specified.. no good..
>> so! defend yourself! :)
>>
>> //Olle
>> (no I'm not angry or anything.. :))
>>
>>
>> John Teffer wrote:
>> >
>> > Markus Räty wrote:
>> >
>> > > P.S. You actually should be able to tell the 2.5mm plug from the
>> 3.5mm one
>> > > just by looking if you ever want to do something audio related
>> for
>> > > example...
>> >
>> > Well, I'm sure if I had both plugs side by side I could tell the
>> > difference. :)
>> >
>> > It just when you Commies start talking in your crazy "metric
>> > system" and fluorinating the water that I get confused.
>> >
>> > - John
>> >
>> > --
>> > Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggy" until you can find a
>> rock.
>> > --
>>
>
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