Aspect ratio 3:2 or 2:3

[Saorsa]

1/6 of 1 gill used to work well for me.



I lived in England from 1940 to 1984 and never once saw a guinea. Plenty of ha'pennies though and a good few farthings too.

The guinea is the i of currency.

That would be hexadecimal, would it not?

Yes, it would.

[george013]

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Your GPS shows you locations and distances in kilometers or miles but, the particular metric on your screen is literally almost the last thing that gets done before display. They are derived from the very non-metric degrees, minutes and seconds. The orbital calculations, angular measurements and specific geolocation ignore them.

Every time I have to find out again what notation to use in my gps-system or in google.
https://www.gps-latitude-longitude.c...s-of-amsterdam


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_(angle)

Beside this, a 10 based system is easier to learn with 10 fingers.

George

[george013]

Since the French revolution people tried to standardize the meter. First it was a peace of metal, I don't know what metal anymore, and now it's based on the speed of light in vacuum. I wondered how that was with the miles. And what did I found? A mile is based on the decimal metric system. One mile is 1,609.344. Not as an equation, but as a definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile

George

[Saorsa]

Every time I have to find out again what notation to use in my gps-system or in google.
https://www.gps-latitude-longitude.c...s-of-amsterdam


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_(angle)

Beside this, a 10 based system is easier to learn with 10 fingers.

George

It is indeed but the fact is that whether imperial or metric they are simply ways for humans to visualize something.

We can measure things with great precision and could use anything we want. We just seem to agree on a few like the shape of the earth. Except when we measure things differently using different methods. Then, we have to convert and we do to whatever we want to use.

[Ken MT]

Not everybody agrees on the shape of the earth, some think that it is flat, ie 2 dimensional.
Not sure what that relates to the original question except it may be 3x2, or is that 2x3.

[miatab]

The Earth is two miles by three miles. When a lover says to his loved one, "I'll follow you to the end of the earth," this is sometimes what he means. This ratio is the source of the love triangle.