Please help solve an argument..

[mechanic]

B.
15 thou on feeler gauges is .015.
Does it matter if it's time , distance or whatever, isn't this just the decimal system?

[Tickford.]

Originally Posted by mechanic

B.
15 thou on feeler gauges is .015.
Does it matter if it's time , distance or whatever, isn't this just the decimal system?

That's is my thinking also. But the other party explained to me in some figures relating to timing being 60 units vs a 100, and something about milliseconds, degrees and blah blah (wasn't really paying attention anyway) and it threw me off. I'd had a number of beers by then so I thought I must be wrong.

Then got home in time for the F1 qualifying in Brazil where Rosberg did a 1:11.282 to Hamilton's 1:11.360 - and when the commentator said "Rosberg out qualifies Hamilton by seventy eight hundredths of a second..." I was like whaaathafaa!??

[ford71V8]

Seventy eight hundredths doesn't really roll of the tongue too easily.
Round the numbers up or down and go with something that people can easily comprehend.... 8 tenths, would have been fine

[Tassie f100]

But 0.78 of a second sounds even better

[FPV GTHO]

Well the commentators clearly got it wrong then

[99AUXR]

Seventy eight thousandths. . . 0.078

[mechanic]

Originally Posted by xxxg

That's is my thinking also. But the other party explained to me in some figures relating to timing being 60 units vs a 100, and something about milliseconds, degrees and blah blah (wasn't really paying attention anyway) and it threw me off. I'd had a number of beers by then so I thought I must be wrong.

Then got home in time for the F1 qualifying in Brazil where Rosberg did a 1:11.282 to Hamilton's 1:11.360 - and when the commentator said "Rosberg out qualifies Hamilton by seventy eight hundredths of a second..." I was like whaaathafaa!??

Big difference to the original post
"seventy eight hundredths of " A SECOND "
As against " 0.015 seconds " which doesn't make sense, once it becomes less than a second it should read " of a second ".
No such measurement as 0.015 seconds, seconds is plural and we're talking part of a singular second.

[FPV GTHO]

That's getting into semantics. Whether you say 78 thousands of a second or 0.078 seconds, anyone should be able to understand.

[99AUXR]

Originally Posted by FPV GTHO

That's getting into semantics. Whether you say 78 thousands of a second or 0.078 seconds, anyone should be able to understand.

Correct because, '0.078 seconds' can be read as '0.078 x (1 second)'

[39ClevoUte]

15 milliseconds.
A millisecond (from milli- and second; symbol: ms) is a thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1,000) of a second.

[zilo]

Originally Posted by rst2000

Congratulations you sheep....

Didn't see you stick your neck out before jumping on the bandwagon...

Loser....

[Silver']

Originally Posted by 37Clevo

15 milliseconds.
A millisecond (from milli- and second; symbol: ms) is a thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1,000) of a second.

This was my thinking too, but I'm pretty sure it's my programming background alone that makes me think that way - milliseconds isn't commonly used in the real world I don't think?

[Russ]

Originally Posted by JC

15 thousands was B....

My bad

Oh well the answer was correct I just need to wear my glasses more often when reading

And it was 15 thousandths by the way not thousands

[barrys123]

I think this thread is just about finished.

[Silver']

So unsubscribe.

[ebxr8240]

Oh the drama !

[Phildo]

Originally Posted by barrys123

I think this thread is just about finished.

Yep.

There's about 0.015 seconds left.

[Dave_Obsession]

it's 15 tenths of a second.

[Pis-ton broke]

im confused

lets ring up nasa

[Sox]

15 poofteenths of a second...

[Pis-ton broke]

try harder next time pis-ton

[thefargo]

3 two hundredths just to simplify