09-13-2021, 01:18 PM | #41 |
Join Date: Aug 2007
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
Choosing a distance a normal human can pace off isn't arbitrary.
__________________
Fred Brackin |
09-13-2021, 02:48 PM | #42 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Seattle, WA USA
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
Quote:
That should be 1/10,000,000th. Though a world that was 40km in circumference would be amusing. |
|
09-13-2021, 03:49 PM | #43 | |
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Europe
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
Quote:
Even England had issues like "is a clothyard a yard plus a thumb, or a yard plus a nail (3")"?
__________________
"It is easier to banish a habit of thought than a piece of knowledge." H. Beam Piper This forum got less aggravating when I started using the ignore feature |
|
09-13-2021, 04:25 PM | #44 |
☣
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Southeast NC
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
If you use a double stride, millimiles work very well. Which, considering that a Roman mile was 1000 paces (a pace is actually two steps), isn't that surprising.
__________________
RyanW - Actually one normal sized guy in three tiny trenchcoats. |
09-13-2021, 06:08 PM | #45 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ronkonkoma, NY
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
Quote:
The conversation didn't go, "Our new meter should, of course, be 1/10,000,000th of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator going through Paris. What could be more natural?" "Say, that unit is really close to the length of the yard!" "Is it?! What a coincidence!" |
|
09-13-2021, 06:45 PM | #46 | |
Icelandic - Approach With Caution
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Reykjavķk, Iceland
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
Quote:
"Ah, Jean. Let's find some scientific reasoning for that" |
|
09-13-2021, 09:52 PM | #47 | ||||
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
Quote:
Quote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_...olution#Length They appear to have had a footish pied du roi and a 2-yardish/1-fathomish toise. Quote:
Quote:
__________________
Collaborative Settings: Cyberpunk: Duopoly Nation Space Opera: Behind the King's Eclipse And heaps of forum collabs, 30+ and counting! |
||||
09-13-2021, 10:17 PM | #48 | |||
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
In any case, imperial measurements are still useful for poetic, proverbial and colloquial uses. Saying things like, "give an inch and take a mile," "jump six feet in the air," "walk a mile in someone's shoes," "a pound of flesh" and so on don't really work in metric.
__________________
Collaborative Settings: Cyberpunk: Duopoly Nation Space Opera: Behind the King's Eclipse And heaps of forum collabs, 30+ and counting! Last edited by Daigoro; 09-13-2021 at 11:23 PM. |
|||
09-14-2021, 09:20 AM | #49 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ronkonkoma, NY
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
Quote:
British yards wasn't my point. The "about this much" measurement was. Of course it is. I'm not saying Fahrenheit is better because it objectively sets boundaries for human comfort. I'm saying that I find Fahrenheit better suited to intuiting my temperature ranges, and I can understand why some others who share my situation would find it so as well. It's entirely subjective, as I've been saying all along. |
|
09-14-2021, 03:33 PM | #50 |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Benchmark tables for BL, Damage, Damage Resistance?
I love the 0-100 scale of Celsius in theory. But a degree Fahrenheit is about my threshold for perception making Celsius a bit clunky. Of course that's purely my preference.
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. |
Tags |
imperial units, metric |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|