There’s no place like home for math education

Re:There’s no place like home for math education by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @01:53PM (#2411950)

>200 gallon, 60 pound

Is it 4 score hogshead moons per gross of firkin?

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Re:There’s no place like home for math education by evilduck on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @02:12PM (#2412037)

You jest, but unit measurement differences are very similar to radix differences. Being able to think in multiple units/bases is a useful skill.

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Re:There’s no place like home for math education by kragen on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @09:36PM (#2413552)

    kragen@inexorable:~$ units
    2411 units, 71 prefixes, 33 nonlinear units

    You have: 4 score hogshead moons per gross of firkin
    Unknown unit 'moons'
    You have:

Were you thinking lunar months, moon masses, moon radii, moon apogee...?

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Re:There’s no place like home for math education by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @06:58AM (#2414603)

I was thinking "moons" as a period of time, so a lunar month : [time][volume]/[volume]

As in "We'll see 3 more moons before yon mountain dons his snowy cape." or some such yokel-ese.

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Re:There’s no place like home for math education by kragen on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:39PM (#2417097)

Well, fourscore hogshead per gross of firkin is 3.8̄ (i.e. 35/9), so fourscore hogshead-moons per gross of firkin is about 115 days.

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Re:There’s no place like home for math education by pbhjpbhj on Thursday April 07, 2011 @08:59AM (#2419268)

It was intended as a witty remark, I only parsed for unitary conformance not for value and didn't bother to answer the question.

Perhaps you'd like to do it and provide the answer in these units?

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