Calculator Accuracy & Usefulness

[Les Bell]

(05-24-2015 09:59 AM)Paul Dale Wrote:  Doesn't everyone use attoparsecs per microfortnight?

Then there is the nanoacre.

I was very fortunate to have Prof. J. E. Gordon, author of "The New Science of Strong Materials" and "Structures: or Why Things Don't Fall Down" as my materials science lecturer. Gordon was something of a classicist - he actually got the university to award combined degrees in Engineering and Classics, and ran final-year projects such as building a Greek palintonon, a kind of classical high-tech crossbow.

I believe he coined the SI unit of beauty, the milliHelen, which he defined as "that face which would launch one ship".