[LEAPSECS] drift of TAI

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

> However, following the subsequent mathematical proof that the choice

> of base makes no difference to any kind of math, apart from expense

> of ink and paper to write the numbers, base-2 was left alone until

> somebody much later got the heritical idea to drive thermionic

> valves way pas their linear behaviour.


"Makes no difference" so long as the base is uniform :-) The civilized
world has mostly eliminated non-uniform bases, except for dealing with
time. The Americans (and the British to a lesser extent) still cling to
the handicap of non-uniform bases for other measurements. Still, could
be worse: at least there aren't leap-ounces.

Tony.
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