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Vecchio 28-05-2012, 09.51.40
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Predefinito Re: British driving and Imperial units of measure

irwell is even more funny than martin

"Irwell" <hook@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
1ieg568wcrevb$.a27ppiizdmuz$.dlg@40tude.net...[color=blue]
> On Sun, 27 May 2012 13:04:02 -0700 (PDT),
> [email]christopherjabinghambbuk@gmail.com[/email] wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On Saturday, 19 November 2011 09:24:42 UTC, Johannes Kleese wrote:[color=darkred]
>>>> And in general, the English measures make more sense than metric,
>>>> anyway. Everybody knows this.
>>>
>>>> they're easier to manipulate in one's head
>>>
>>> Indeed. 1 inch being 0.0833 feet or 0.02777 yards is a straight-forward
>>> conversion and just makes sense.
>>>
>>> Say I'd measured several small pieces and summed up to 1373 inch. That's
>>> obviously 114.42 feet or 38.14 yards, got that in a second of thinking.
>>> I wonder what wicked idiot came up with the idea that turning 3487
>>> centimeters into 34.87 meters would be as easy?
>>>
>>>> a connection usually with something in everyday life (inch, foot, yard,
>>>> gallon, etc.),
>>>
>>> Which could not be true for the metric system. And who uses a rule
>>> anyway, we calculate using fingers so we may measure with thumbs, too.
>>>
>>> Not to speak of the problem that a US liter surely is different from an
>>> Imperial liter. Something that could never ever happen with gallons.
>>>
>>>> and all the tooling already invested-in are all in English / Imperial
>>>> measures.
>>>
>>> Definitly. I still use those 200 year old tools, too. Those rulers with
>>> both Imperial and metric units make me crazy.
>>>
>>> You forgot one point, though: The metric system for lengths, for
>>> example, is based on just one lame unit, the meter, extended with some
>>> factor of ten, if needed.
>>>
>>> True geniuses of engineering come up with something like this:
>>> [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/English_length_units_graph.svg[/url]
>>> - Now, how many poppyseeds are one shackle?[/color]
>>
>> There are no English measurements! They are imperial measurements. What
>> do the Scottish and Welsh use? !!![/color]
>
> Cabers and saucepans.[/color]

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  #2612  
Vecchio 28-05-2012, 09.51.40
Runge 666
 
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Predefinito Re: British driving and Imperial units of measure

irwell is even more funny than martin

"Irwell" <hook@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
1ieg568wcrevb$.a27ppiizdmuz$.dlg@40tude.net...[color=blue]
> On Sun, 27 May 2012 13:04:02 -0700 (PDT),
> [email]christopherjabinghambbuk@gmail.com[/email] wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On Saturday, 19 November 2011 09:24:42 UTC, Johannes Kleese wrote:[color=darkred]
>>>> And in general, the English measures make more sense than metric,
>>>> anyway. Everybody knows this.
>>>
>>>> they're easier to manipulate in one's head
>>>
>>> Indeed. 1 inch being 0.0833 feet or 0.02777 yards is a straight-forward
>>> conversion and just makes sense.
>>>
>>> Say I'd measured several small pieces and summed up to 1373 inch. That's
>>> obviously 114.42 feet or 38.14 yards, got that in a second of thinking.
>>> I wonder what wicked idiot came up with the idea that turning 3487
>>> centimeters into 34.87 meters would be as easy?
>>>
>>>> a connection usually with something in everyday life (inch, foot, yard,
>>>> gallon, etc.),
>>>
>>> Which could not be true for the metric system. And who uses a rule
>>> anyway, we calculate using fingers so we may measure with thumbs, too.
>>>
>>> Not to speak of the problem that a US liter surely is different from an
>>> Imperial liter. Something that could never ever happen with gallons.
>>>
>>>> and all the tooling already invested-in are all in English / Imperial
>>>> measures.
>>>
>>> Definitly. I still use those 200 year old tools, too. Those rulers with
>>> both Imperial and metric units make me crazy.
>>>
>>> You forgot one point, though: The metric system for lengths, for
>>> example, is based on just one lame unit, the meter, extended with some
>>> factor of ten, if needed.
>>>
>>> True geniuses of engineering come up with something like this:
>>> [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/English_length_units_graph.svg[/url]
>>> - Now, how many poppyseeds are one shackle?[/color]
>>
>> There are no English measurements! They are imperial measurements. What
>> do the Scottish and Welsh use? !!![/color]
>
> Cabers and saucepans.[/color]

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