blizzrd
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This has more to do with America having the most over-developed civil litigation system in the world than the sheer brilliance of the American populace in my opinion.They have the highest number of patents every year.
This has more to do with America having the most over-developed civil litigation system in the world than the sheer brilliance of the American populace in my opinion.They have the highest number of patents every year.
This has more to do with America having the most over-developed civil litigation system in the world than the sheer brilliance of the American populace in my opinion.
The 12 AM/PM problem arises from the need to describe 12:01 in the morning as 12:01 AM and hence by inference just before that is also called 12:00 AM.
I agree with the earlier post. I never use either 12 AM or 12 PM and always write 12 noon or 12 midnight.
yeah, if the new day would start at 1:00AM it would all make much more sense. But still the solution adopted in the anglosaxon countries is wrong. In countries that use the 24 hours format, or at least in Italy, noon and one minute is still 12:01 AM, not 12:01 PM. Since the AM/PM notation refers to the hours more than minutes, it's still more correct than a 12 PM noon.
Note that I assume you called "12:01 in the morning" midnight and one minute, but that should be night not morning ^^
Úmarth;6751124 said:Didn't a satellite or something end up costing a couple of billion more dollars because of a conversion error a few years ago?
Interesting how the American Empire challenge thread turned into a debate about measurement. I could see many different ways that this thread could have gone, but I didn't see that one coming.
No. But by the same logic a nation which shuns alphabet is unlikely to be considered a world leader in literature.
If you use a 24 hour format, what is the need for AM and PM? You always know which half of the day you're in.
If you think of a day as 24 hours, it should sensibly start at time 0 and finish at time 24.
Thus the first half ("AM") is from time zero to time 12 (noon), and the second half ("PM") is from time 12 to time 24 (midnight). Starting at time 1 is unintuitive, since after 24 hours you are at time 25! You don't count starting at 1, do you?
From this position, once you hit noon you have enter the "PM" timeset, so you should start using the "PM" suffix - time noon to time 1pm is the first hour of the afternoon. So 12:xx PM in the afternoon is perfectly sensible. A similar argument holds for the first hour after midnight.
As for the sticky position of 12:00, time is a continuum. So you can never be exactly at time position 12:00, AM or PM - if you have reached 12:00, you must necessarily be just after it, and thus into the next timeset. So you should switch the suffix.
One English pound of force equals 4.45 newtons.
And if you continue this debate I will ask a Mod to come into this thread. Keep this thread focused on playing the challenge. You may PM me anymore of your comments blizzrd.