tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 04 00:35:44 1999
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cheb'a' to the Kg. was (Re: Higher math)
- From: "'oghwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: cheb'a' to the Kg. was (Re: Higher math)
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:41:26 -0000
>Steven Boozer schrieb:
>> This is literally "The ship weighs 375,000 {cheb'a'mey}" -- "375 {SaD}",
>[...]
>> Speaking of which... is Okrand's math right? One {cheb} = ca. 2.25 kg/5
>> lbs, and according to charghwI's interview with Okrand one {cheb'a'} = 9
>> {chebmey}. So the BoP weighs ca. 7,593,750 kg. Where did the 8.7 KT
>> figure come from? Is a kiloton one million tons?
>
>1 kiloton = 1,000 tons = 1,000 x 1,000 kg = 1,000,000 kg
>
>About the difference 8.7/7.5:
>- We don't know how much a cheb really is
>- this ship cannot weigh *exactly* 375,000 cheb'a'mey
>(although Klingons are sometimes inaccurate, they are never approximate)
perhaps the conversion was into newtons and then (so we have a normal
refference) into Kg. If the gravity on Qo'noS was greater then.. No. That
does not work :}
acctualy working it bakwards.... {:
I get one cheb to be about 2.5. How accurate is that 2.25 you quoted?
If you ignore the 375000 and work out how many cheb'a' there are in the
8.7KT, you get 429629. 15% inaccuracy, hum. That's not good. Would a
Klingon be this inaccurate?
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