From: siegel@acm.org

On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 4:44:41 AM UTC-4, Brian M. Scott wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:25:01 -0700 (PDT), "David E. Siegel
>


>
> The one time-keeping system that really took me a little
> getting used to was that of Joan D. Vinge's _Outcasts of
> Heaven Belt_: all time intervals are given in seconds (with
> metric prefixes as needed), and it took me a little while to
> get a real feel for it.
>
> Brian
>
Yes, but it didn't take me too long to develop a mental table of rough
equivalents. The same system is used, at much greater length, in Vinge's _A
 Deepness in the Sky_. Not too surprising, they were married during the period
those books were being drafted, IIRC.

-DES

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