{"id":1482,"date":"2007-03-21T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2007-03-21T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T21:27:13","slug":"new-unit-of-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"New Unit of Measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In America, the \"football field\" (ex. the new Airbus jet has wings wider than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/europe\/03\/19\/airbus.transatlantic.ap\/index.html\">a football field<\/a>) is a standard unit of distance. In the rest of the world, they use non-standard \"football pitch\" (ex. the new Airbus jet has wings wider than <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/4174729.stm\">a football pitch<\/a>). Very handy. Well now we now have the \"day of MP3 music\" as a unit of hard disk space:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When stored in highly compressed form on a computer hard drive, the solution [to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/science\/03\/21\/math.puzzle.solved.ap\/index.html\">'Lie group E8' math puzzle<\/a>] takes up as much space as 45 days of continuous music in MP3 format.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They don't mention the compression ratio, the encoder, or the type of music - so there's bound to be confusion over exactly how large that is. Nonetheless, I'm sure it's an impressive feat. How impressive?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"It's like a Mount Everest of mathematical structures they've climbed now,\" said Brian Conrey, director of the institute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, yes, one Mt Everest: the standard unit of difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In America, the \"football field\" (ex. the new Airbus jet has wings wider than a football field) is a standard unit of distance. In the rest of the world, they use non-standard \"football pitch\" (ex. the new Airbus jet has wings wider than a football pitch). Very handy. Well now we now have the \"day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}