The implication being that she is very stupid, which is quite unlikely to be true. Accounting is applied algebra, plus regulations, and considerable tolerance of boring tasks.
Because money is a non-negative quantity, there was no negative number form in accounting, only the subtraction arithmetic operator.
So accountants signify negative numbers, as in debts and losses, by enclosing the value in parens. But computers prefer plus and minus signs, so the convention is changing.
Joe Gwinn
I had a relative who had some pain in his foot, and the doctor x-rayed it. There was a small nail inside his big toe. It had probably been there for decades. Nobody ever explained that.
I can estimate the temp of a heat sink by touch pretty accurately, in the range of about 45 to 65c. 50c is my threshold of pain.
90 or less is 25% of the population ...
A mens' clothing store tends to buy more than one shirt at a time. She worked for Cluett & Peabody who made Arrow shirts. The brand still exists but now they're made in Bangladesh or some shithole.
Anyway, they were dress shirts with each style available in a variety of collar sizes and sleeve lengths. When Harry's Haberdashery orders 5 dozen shirts they don't get to pick an choose; they get a selection of sizes in a normal distribution. That leads to a lot of base 12 arithmetic.
Today, the normal distribution seems to consist of XL, XLL, and XLLL sizes with sleeves suitable for alligators.
At least America is evolving. The UK has been devolving since they lost that war they thought they won. How's that true Scotsman, Humza Yousaf, doing? Bad enough to have one named after a fish. What was the matter with Forbes? Upset the poofters?
We used units such as Hertz long before the UK ever joined the EEC.
I note on some American videos that they refer to units as either metric or "English" units (rather than Imperial units).
Especially when we asked for corn and you didn't send us wheat but instead you sent us some yellow bubbly stuff :)
I don't think you can be that proud of your food having inflicted McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Crap on us.
The use of capital letters for units in the SI is only for units named after persons. So, capital C has to be Celsius (and lowercase 'c' for a unit might be calorie). Also, lowercase 'c' indicates 1/100, for 100 the SI usage is 'hecto' not 'centi'.
It would appear that the proper name for the non-metric system of units used in the U.S. is the U.S. Customary System of Units. Outside of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, I doubt anybody calls it that. "English" is so much shorter.
Indeed - 1962 for me, when I started work
Yes, atmospheric pressure is roughly 1 bar. My weather station software quotes pressures in mb (millibars) with figures that range from about 970 to
1050 mb. The gauge can changed to display hPa (hectopascals) which are numerically identical (1 mb = 1 hPa), kPa (figures range from 97 to 105) or inHg (figures ranging from 28 to 31.5). Surprisingly it doesn't offer mmHg. I believe that the standard for international aviation is inHg (because it was influenced by the Americans); similarly aviation altitudes are expressed in feet, though I have heard a pilot announce to his passengers that we would be flying at 5000 metres - this was in an internal short-hop flight from Amsterdam (NL) to Paderborn (DE).
My parents' portable radio, a Grundig Yacht Boy, which they got in the mid-to-late 1960s, was calibrated in kHz and MHz rather than kc/s and Mc/s (or even wavelengths in metres).
Grits? Grits is wonderful.
It's popular in the Olde Country because it so much better than what you had.
Popeyes is much better chicken.
Yes, and it was dent corn. (dent corn is a high starch variant chiefly used for fodder, or ethanol production these days.)
afaik things like the 40 m ham band that was assigned in 1924 in the US has always been called the 40 m band. A specific frequency will be given as 7.010 MHz but I've never heard it called the 7 MHz band.
otoh 2 m is often referred to as 144 MHz and 440 MHz is rarely referred to as 70 centimeters.
Why be consistent?
England was the cultural and technical driving force of the world, a long time ago. The US has taken over those roles.
The class structure of many countries drives the best and brightest individuals to the US. It's so big and there are so many different places and cultures here, it's a good place for unusual people to come and find a place to fit in. I have several very smart and very nice neighbors with huge incomes and interesting accents.
I think that Putin actually wants the war objectors and draft dodgers to leave Russia. He wants a country of dumb poor alcoholic patriots, and he'll get it. We'll take the troublemakers.
Long term, diffusion of talent dominates progress.
I read a claim that, in 1900, people mostly married someone born within 15 miles of themselves. Now we have national and international immigration diffusion gradients thus positive-feedback effects on populations and genetics.
Generating limp insults can be done with much less IQ than electronic design.
Utter bollocks. There are 10 times as many acres per head of habitable land in the USA as in Europe, and ten time as as many resources under it. The miracles is that middle class americans are not ten times as rich as Europeans, a tribute to the rapacity of its leaders. Like any other country,Such success as the US has us *despite* it's (lack of) culture religion ethnicity and political, ideology.
It's so big and there are so many different
In pakistan, its rare to marry outside your own family
I wonder whether he puts sugar on his porridge.
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