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   
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   > 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.   
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   > Brian   
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   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.   
      
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