Sunday, June 26, 2016

Improving TGM

I like the TGM system, but there is some need for improvement

(see this if you don't know what it is)

Renaming of units

let's face it: the names are stupid.

Even if you think they are fine, they should still be changed because every unit name comes from English, causing problems for non-English speakers (there actually are some dozenalists who speak a language other than English).

I came up with new names for every TGM unit. All of the names are from Latin (though sometimes shortened), unless noted otherwise

tim (time unit)
tem (tm)
gee (acceleration unit)
cadere (c), or tandems per tem² (t/tm²)
denz (density unit)
densit (d)
calg (temperature unit)
aestus (ae)
kur (electric current unit)
fulger (f)
molz (amount of substance unit)
toma (ta)*
vlos (velocity unit)
tandems per tem (t/tm)
grafut (length unit)
tandem (t)
surf (area unit)
square tandem (t²)
volm (volume unit)
cirduct (cr)
maz (mass unit)
pondus (pd)
mag (force unit)
vi (vi)
perm (pressure unit)
cura (cu)
werg (energy unit)
nixus (nx)
pov (power unit)
op (op)
pel (electric potential unit)
tia (tia)
og (electric resistance unit)
luctor (lc)
quel (charge unit)
ictus (iu)
* Shortened form of "atomic mass", but that is how we got the name for the mole ("molecular mass"), so whatever
Any other name can be formed from previous units, or someone can form a latin-based name like I did.

"Normal" units

Like the SI, we need a few extra units because of the extremes that the base units offer.

Here are some units I proposed:
Pound - 0;01 pondus.
Triquatandems per hour - 0;1 tandems per tem. Since it is a lot smaller than km/h or mph, speed limits look bigger, discouraging speeding.
Spoon - 0;001 cirducts.
Cirducts per *100 triquatandems - *100000 cirducts per tandem (hey, the SI unit of fuel consumption is meters per cubic meter).
Prime - *1000 tems (5 minutes)
Dual - *100 tems (25 seconds)
Tria - *10 tems

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