Re: conplaneteering

On Monday 14 February 2005 06:01 +0100, Philip Newton wrote:

 > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:29:46 +0100, Carsten Becker
 >
 > <naranoieati@beckerscarsten.de
<mailto:naranoieati@...>> wrote:
 > > Kappa Virgo[1]
 >
 > Kappa Virginis?

That's what the program said. (KAstronomy or something like
that)

 > > a radius of 18.38x our sun and a rotation period of
 > > 53,000 days (cf. 25,400 days).
 >
 > Jörg said our sun has a rotation period of
 > "twenty-something days", yet you say it's twenty-five
 > *thousand* days?

Then this should be 53.000 and 25.400 days accordingly, with
the period seperating the wholes from the fractions.

Philipp Newton said:
 > At first I thought that might be a decimal comma, but you
 > wrote "18.38x" and not "18,38x".

Mark J. Reed in addition:
 > I think it was just a case of inconsistently translating
 > from decimal comma to decimal point for the benefit of
 > the intended audience.

Yes, Mark is right. Anyway, it's 18 and 38/100. But I should
be more consistent.
Why can't you Anglophones not simply change to comma like
the rest of the world? Or us to the period? Though the
latter one would certainly be more troublesome
("aufwändig", in the meaning of both, efford and costs).
This was a rethorical question.

Carsten

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