Kappa⁴ Archive

banned-users

Phi Kappa Chi ΦΚΧ <a:yeah:589703000977571860><a:ppHop:536353159615086612>

Jump to date
Pins
legorhin banned-users 
o·ta·ku
ōˈtäko͞o/
noun
(in Japan) a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment of their social skills.
Phijkchu_Pikachu banned-users
A unit sometimes used in computing, the term is believed to have been coined by IBM in 1969 from the design objective "never to let the user wait more than a few nanocenturies for a response".[36] A nanocentury is approximately 3.155 seconds, although Tom Duff is frequently cited as saying that, to within half a percent, a nanocentury is π seconds.[37]
Phijkchu_Pikachu banned-users
Pirate Ninja[edit] A Pirate Ninja is defined as one kilowatt hour per Martian day, or sol. The Martian book and movie author Andy Weir revealed in a 2015 interview that the Curiosity rover team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory references milli-Pirate-Ninjas in their meetings.[27]
Phijkchu_Pikachu banned-users
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulum
Scrupulum

Scrupulum, meaning a tiny stone (from scrupus sharp stone), indicates a weight of 1/24 of an ounce or, by extension, of other measures. Metaphorically, the stone is thought to be sharp and pricking, like a thorn. As a weight or a coin, 1/24 of an uncia, or 1/288 of an as As a measure of land, 1/288 of a jugerum As a measure of time, 1/24 part of an hour. The forms scripulum, scriptulum, scriplus and scriptulus can be found, scriptulum being also associated with the lines on a draughtboard.

en.wikipedia.org
legorhin banned-users
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steradian
Steradian

The steradian (symbol: sr) or square radian is the SI unit of solid angle. It is used in three-dimensional geometry, and is analogous to the radian which quantifies planar angles. The name is derived from the Greek stereos for "solid" and the Latin radius for "ray, beam". The steradian, like the radian, is a dimensionless unit, essentially because a solid angle is the ratio between the area subtended and the square of its distance from the vertex: both the numerator and denominator of this ratio have dimens...

en.wikipedia.org
legorhin banned-users
http://listverse.com/2012/03/07/10-bizarre-units-of-measurement/
10 Bizarre Units of Measurement

When we compare things, the best way to do so is to measure their attributes. Which is more expensive? Which is taller? Which takes longer? From a very young age children naturally begin to ask these questions when they are given choices. Today, 95% of the world uses the metric system, but this was not always so. A colorful variety of measurements have been used in the past. Many of these are easily recognized, however, there are some which are old-fashioned, foreign, or downright bizarre. Here are just ten...

listverse.com

This archive is read-only — captured July 2020

Channels:
Density:

Jump to date