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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #30 on: February 23, 2009, 10:25:18 am »
A year is not equal to precisely 365 days...
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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #31 on: February 23, 2009, 12:45:25 pm »
365.25 then.
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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #32 on: February 23, 2009, 01:45:43 pm »
Sometimes we skip the leap year...
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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #33 on: February 23, 2009, 03:47:37 pm »
Quote from: mainiac on February 23, 2009, 01:45:43 pm
Sometimes we skip the leap year...

365: days in a normal year,
+ 0.25: 1 in 4 years has a leap day,
- 0.01: except years divisible by 100 don't have a leap day,
+ 0.0025: except years divisible by 400 do.
= 365.2425: length of a year in the Gregorian calendar.

365.24219 +- 0.00003 is the true astronomical value.
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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #34 on: February 23, 2009, 03:50:56 pm »
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Quote from: monolar on February 20, 2009, 01:48:55 pm
this is the first time i'm disappointed by the google calculator.

edit:

I just filled out a google feedback form to let them know about beard seconds.

It would seem that someone at Google listened!

http://www.google.com/search?q=one+foot+in+beard-seconds

And this very thread is second on the search page. ;D
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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #35 on: February 23, 2009, 03:56:16 pm »
I feel like a God. Well, a demi-God. Tarn gets the first one. But wow... I was just giddy going through this. Second on Google... I vote everyone fills out a form to get it added in the calculator. Do it!

And everything everyone is talking about is hilarious to read through.

:) :) :)

Edit:

monolar, Where exactly IS the feedback form one could fill out?

Edit Edit:

https://www.google.com/support/a/bin/request.py?contact_type=suggest&submit=Continue

I used this, personally. At the bottom. Be as informative as possible, tell them or link to the Wikipedia article. Everybody tell Google to add beard-seconds to Google Calculator!

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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #36 on: February 23, 2009, 04:19:08 pm »
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Alright, this is fun. One Hectare equals 4.0 x 1020 square beard-seconds. Or 400 square Beard-exaseconds. An exasecond is written as 'Es'. Therefore, a hectare is 400 square BeEs. :D ;D
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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #37 on: February 23, 2009, 05:19:08 pm »
Quote from: Sean Mirrsen on February 23, 2009, 04:19:08 pm
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Alright, this is fun. One Hectare equals 4.0 x 1020 square beard-seconds. Or 400 square Beard-exaseconds. An exasecond is written as 'Es'. Therefore, a hectare is 400 square BeEs. :D ;D

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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #38 on: February 23, 2009, 06:29:15 pm »
Quote from: Aqizzar on February 23, 2009, 05:19:08 pm
Quote from: Sean Mirrsen on February 23, 2009, 04:19:08 pm
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Alright, this is fun. One Hectare equals 4.0 x 1020 square beard-seconds. Or 400 square Beard-exaseconds. An exasecond is written as 'Es'. Therefore, a hectare is 400 square BeEs. :D ;D

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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #39 on: February 24, 2009, 01:01:38 am »
isnt a dwarfbeard-second a little higher than a human beard-second? like say 1,5 beard-second = 1 dwarf-beard-second?
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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #40 on: February 24, 2009, 04:34:26 am »
Quote from: Barbarossa the Seal God on February 23, 2009, 08:48:13 am
well that's easy to convert

that # in beard seconds divided by 60 divided by 60 divided by 24 divided by 365.

or just B/31536000, where B= # in beard-seconds, if you'd prefer it didn't look like a gnarly homework question about unit conversions.
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Re: Gentlemen and lady-folk, I give you your new system of measurement.
« Reply #41 on: February 24, 2009, 05:14:28 am »
Quote from: Rhenaya on February 24, 2009, 01:01:38 am
isnt a dwarfbeard-second a little higher than a human beard-second? like say 1,5 beard-second = 1 dwarf-beard-second?

As I see it, all dwarves are born with a (mostly) full beard, and this beard then continues to grow for the rest of his/her life at roughly the same rate as a human beard. Then again, apparently female dwarves don't have beards canonically, so I really don't know what to believe anymore.
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