After confirming gravity as the anchor point, the only problem was how to convert the gravitational digits into length.
Moreover, it would be best if the results remained unchanged, regardless of the weight of the vessels used for asurent.
The Engineering Priests gradually stopped their lively discussion. They scratched their heads and wrinkled their noses, writing and drawing on the ground, but still couldn’t figure it out.
Horn smiled and interrupted the Engineering Priests’ discussion: "In fact, there are natural phenona that are not interfered with by asuring instrunts."
"What is it?"
Horn did not speak but pointed his finger to the corner of the small office building not far in front of him.
There, on a floor paved with stone and wood, stood silently a large pendulum clock, more than one person high, leaning against the corner.
"Ah, I understand." After the confusion and contemplation, a forr clockmaker suddenly slapped his head, "It’s the pendulum!"
"Hahahaha." Horn laughed heartily, he finally heard the answer he wanted, which was the conclusion he and Hilov had discussed.
Use the pendulum effect.
Though the Empire’s civilization was in decline, the El people slowly discovered the pendulum effect but had not yet summarized it.
However, Horn knew that when a pendulum makes periodic forward and backward motions, the ti for one cycle of movent is related to the pendulum length and gravitational acceleration, but is independent of amplitude and pendulum ball mass.
In other words, regardless of the weight of the pendulum ball or the size of the amplitude, the swinging ti is only related to pendulum length and gravity.
If the slight differences in gravity from different regions are ignored, as long as the sa ti for one swing is stipulated, the pendulum length must be the sa.
No matter what type of pendulum ball they use, or what amplitude, as long as the ti for one cycle is consistent, the pendulum length must be consistent.
Although there is still so degree of error, it is certainly much smaller than the error of the current old systems.
"Then it becos simple." The voice of that clockmaker grew louder, but noticing Horn watching him, he quickly quieted down.
"Oh, you’re shy?" Horn waved him over, "What is your thought? Let take a look."
Under the gaze of other Engineering Priests, the clockmaker hesitantly walked out: "My humble opinion is, you set a day to have 24 hours, 86,400 seconds.
We choose a pendulum clock, and when it swings 86,400 tis exactly each day, record its pendulum length, and set it as a standard unit of length."
"We use the El Empire lexical unit, transliterate Leia to temporarily write it as Nemamite, abbreviated as ter." Horn continued along with his idea.
"But, sir, does this an it has to swing for a full day every ti?"
"That’s silly." Just as he finished speaking, nearby companions began to refute him, "Just bring a normal pendulum clock and compare it, won’t you know?"
"But what if there’s no normal pendulum clock, or the normal pendulum clock is just broken?"
"If the village doesn’t have a pendulum clock, go to the town; if the town’s pendulum clock is broken, then to the city."
These people are so of the smartest citizens, and many have even attended college, able to quickly infer and adapt.
"Why don’t we unify the ti across cities, adjusting it once per month according to the work clock of Autumn Dusk Island."
"Thus, using one day of 24 hours from Autumn Dusk Island’s year to determine length, then update the standard ruler annually."
Seeing their excitent, Horn didn’t join in.
For he knew this problem was far from being as simple as imagined.
This world has a festival similar to the winter solstice called winter arrival, and there are four seasons, which certainly implies a variance in angle between the continent and the sun.
Thus, it is not entirely certain that the ti between the first day’s sunrise and the second day’s sunrise is exactly 24 hours; several seconds of error are natural.
When these small errors accumulate, they beco a great error, naly leap months.
Ordinary logic would say this world should have leap years and regular years.
But mysteriously, in ancient seven hills tis, and even in early El Empire, records of leap years existed.
Yet by the ti of the Empire’s eastward migration, leap years had mysteriously disappeared.
Even at the ti, scholars ridiculed leap years as defects in the Ancient Aier Calendar, "Creating an imaginary day every four years."
As for what changes occurred in the calendar from early El Empire to the Empire’s eastward migration, Horn could not find any historical records.
Until now, no calendar has leap years set.
The most bewildering part for Horn is that despite the absence of leap years, the farming tis in the calendar do not see any delays.
Without leap years, the calendar should have been in chaotic disarray after a millennium.
Yet the thousand-year calendar published by the Church still runs normally.
Considering this is a world with magic and witches, Horn reasonably suspects whether magic caused these anomalies.
Therefore, he hopes these Engineering Priests of the Research Institute can collaborate with Wizards to initiate a real scientific project.
They need to take a pendulum clock to various places to asure ti, and understand whether the "missing leap year" truly vanished, or just disappeared in the calendar.
"Sir." As others discussed, the Engineering Priest who just proposed ti-based length quietly approached Horn, "Once the length unit is determined, what about weight and volu?"
Horn glanced at him: "What’s your na?"
"Hawk Kempono." The Engineering Priest responded with a bowed head.
"Kempono? What is Robert to you?" This is a rare surna, and Horn imdiately thought of Robert Kempono of the White Mountain Hermitage, "Speak to upright."
"Precisely my elder brother." Hawk quickly stood straighter, "But my mana is too weak, my talent poor, usually carving and making water clocks for nobles to make a living. Last year I was reported by peers as a wizard, so I returned ho to help Robert."
"Good, good lad, don’t worry, here your achievents won’t be less than Robert’s." Horn patted his back and got up, going to the group of disputing Engineering Priests.
"Silence!" The gendars shouted collectively, and the Priests imdiately ceased their conversations.
"Once we calculate a ter with pendulum length, setting length, breadth, and height all as one ter, defining it as a cubic ter, and one cubic ter of water as one ton, this way, length, volu, and weight of asurent are all determined." Horn explained to the Priests.
"From then on, all markets must use standard asurents, marketplace Junior Officials must regularly check, to prevent cheating with weights and asures."
"That’s even more unbearable than killing those El people’s dear fathers..." Soone secretly muttered, causing the Engineering Priests to burst into a chuckle.
But Sessi rubbed his head and raised doubts: "If this is promoted, everyone will be in chaos, afraid so would profit from the confusion."
"No worries, we can run tric and old systems concurrently, anyway, the Pope’s Palace will use tric for taxes and business." Horn waved to finalize the future asurent system.
"Therefore, your task is to first go everywhere to test pendulum length and ti, once tested, quickly establish a set of standard asurent molds.
The later adjustnts should be completed preferably before next year’s autumn harvest, specific matters should be determined by eting, then give a tiline and milestone schedule.
The main responsibility for this mission will be, hmm, my secretary Monk Boned and this Hawk Priest."
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