John Payson <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> This problem is hardly unique to microcontrollers, and can
> frequently occur when people from different disciplines are
> exchanging information.  For example, someone not familiar with
> dietary measures might assume that a Life Savers(r) candy with 10
> calories would have approximately enough energy to heat one gram of
> water ten degrees C; in fact, the candy has 1,000 times that much
> energy because the real dietary unit is the "kilocalorie" except
> that people shorten it to "calorie".

    Of course, the MOST unfortunate consequence of the
    "calorie/Calorie" misunderstanding is that it makes impossible
    the "gin-and-tonic diet", in which you drink a liter of your
    favorite cold beverage and burn 25,000 calories simply by
    bringing the cold liquid up to body temperature in your stomach.

    Oh, well.

    -Andy

Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com
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