When the Saintess Arrives, No King Exist

Chapter 482 - 460: The Disappearing Leap Year

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 measurement.

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 phenomena that are not interfered with by measuring instruments."

"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 former 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 time for one cycle of movement 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 time is only related to pendulum length and gravity.

If the slight differences in gravity from different regions are ignored, as long as the same time for one swing is stipulated, the pendulum length must be the same.

No matter what type of pendulum ball they use, or what amplitude, as long as the time for one cycle is consistent, the pendulum length must be consistent.

Although there is still some degree of error, it is certainly much smaller than the error of the current old systems.

"Then it becomes 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 me 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 times 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 meter." Horn continued along with his idea.

"But, sir, does this mean it has to swing for a full day every time?"

"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 some of the smartest citizens, and many have even attended college, able to quickly infer and adapt.

"Why don't we unify the time 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 excitement, 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.on, this way, length, volume, and weight of measurement are all determined." Horn explained to the Priests.

"From then on, all markets must use standard measurements, marketplace Junior Officials must regularly check, to prevent cheating with weights and measures."

"That's even more unbearable than killing those El people's dear fathers..." Someone 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 some would profit from the confusion."

"No worries, we can run metric and old systems concurrently, anyway, the Pope's Palace will use metric for taxes and business." Horn waved to finalize the future measurement system.

"Therefore, your task is to first go everywhere to test pendulum length and time, once tested, quickly establish a set of standard measurement molds.

The later adjustments should be completed preferably before next year's autumn harvest, specific matters should be determined by meeting, then give me a timeline and milestone schedule.

The main responsibility for this mission will be, hmm, my secretary Monk Boned and this Hawk Priest."