#weightsandmeasures — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #weightsandmeasures, aggregated by home.social.
-
In celebration of World Metrology Day this week (May 20), here's "The proclamation regarding weights and measures, 1556", a mural by Ford Madox Brown completed c.1893, depicting the announcement that the residents of Manchester "shall send in all manner of weights and measures to be tried by their Majesties standard". The announcement seems to be received about as well as you might expect.
Caption contest, anyone?
#MetrologyDay #metrology #WeightsAndMeasures #mural #FordMadoxBrown #CaptionContest
-
A Giant Leap for the Leap Second. Is Mankind Ready? - A top scientist has proposed a new way to reconcile the two different ways that our clock... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/science/time-leap-second.html #nationalinstituteofstandardsandtechnology #internationalbureauofweightsandmeasures #vaticanobservatoryresearchgroup #computersandtheinternet #weightsandmeasures #your-feed-science #watchesandclocks #time
-
It really annoys me that most fiction in English, and more particularly that translated into English, uses measures in the imperial system. It feels strange reading this in Ireland, an anachronism with contemporary characters.
But of course it's due to us getting books destined for the larger US and UK markets
#imperial #weightsAndMeasures #fiction #reading #books -
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/19/1137985619/metric-system-measurement-prefix
We move so much Data we had to invent a couple new terms.
The following have been officially added to the International System of Units
ronna (27 zeroes after the first digit) and quetta (30 zeroes), which are now at the top of the measurement range, and ronto (27 zeroes after the decimal point) and quecto (30 zeroes), which are now at the bottom.
-
It’s Official: The Leap Second Will Be Retired (a Decade from Now) - On Friday, an international vote was taken to ditch the leap second, a technical fudge th... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/science/time-leap-second-bipm.html #nationalinstituteofstandardsandtechnology #internationalbureauofweightsandmeasures #internationaltelecommunicationunion #telephonesandtelecommunications #globalpositioningsystem #weightsandmeasures #vaticanobservatory #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science
-
Is Time Running Out for the Leap Second? - To the world’s timekeepers, the leap second is a kludge, a bane, a pain in the little han... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/science/time-leap-second.html #nationalinstituteofstandardsandtechnology #internationalbureauofweightsandmeasures #telephonesandtelecommunications #globalpositioningsystem #weightsandmeasures #daylightsavingtime #your-feed-science #watchesandclocks #navigation #leapyear #earth #time
-
America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them - For decades, U.S. metrologists have juggled two conflicting measurements for the foot. Henceforth,... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/science/foot-surveying-metrology-dennis.html #nationalinstituteofstandardsandtechnology #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #nationalgeodeticsurvey #weightsandmeasures #blackwelljulianap #your-feed-science #dennismichaell. #metricsystem #research
