[Asterisk-Users] Re: More words for Allison

[David Gomillion]

Yes, I am top-posting.  By choice.  My response is to the whole thread,
most of which I deleted as they came in.

How about we get Allison to say:

Knots
Per
Hour
Second
Minute
Day

These would make it more general for anything that involves a rate.  In
fact, some of these may be recorded already, but suffice it to say that
some people use a knot as a distance, and others use it as a rate.  And
that's OK.

Those who are in the distance camp may piece together knots, per, and
hour to make their unit of choice, and those who like knots as a rate
can just ignore the others, until they read other statistics, like 400
packets per second, or 5 calls per minute, or whatever.

Cees de Groot <> wrote:
>  <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com> said:
>>> I'm a land-lubber, but I think knots is a speed unit (like
>>> Miles Per Hour), so I think you want "knots" here, not "knots
>>> per hour", if you are talking wind speed.
>>> 
>> Then stick to being a land lubber.  Because you're wrong.
>> 
>> A knot is a unit of linear measurement.
>> 
> Hmm, I was under the impression too that knots is a speed
> measurement. And trusty old 'units' seems to agree, it has the
> definition:  
> 
> knot                    nauticalmile / hr
> 
> and
> 
> nauticalmile            1852 m
> 
> And thus:
> 
> % units
> You have: km/hour
> You want: knot
>     * 0.5399568
>     / 1.852
> 
> Wikipaedia seems to agree:
> http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_(nautical)