Re: [LUG] Very OT Imperial v Metric [ Was Re: Clock problems]

[Benjamin A'Lee <bma+lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:56:28AM +0100, Julian Hall wrote:
> Mark Jose wrote:
> > Final moan for tonight - why the hell have schools stopped teaching times 
> > tables up to 12? They stop at 10 now - presumably decimalisation, but that 
> > seems to be a relatively new introduction.
> > I am nearly 47.
> >
> > Mark
> Final Final.
> 
> I'll have 3 metres of 2 x 4 [inch] please.
> 
> length metric, cross-section Imperial.... madness! :)
> 
> BTW IMHO Imperial is superior on accuracy grounds.  deg. F are smaller 
> than deg. C.  Granted inches are bigger than cm, but then you go down as 
> far as 1/8 and 1/16 - much more accurate.

But millimetres are smaller than 16ths of an inch. And, for that matter,
if you need greater accuracy in temperature, use fractions of a degree.

> Feet are smaller than metres... yards are smaller than metres.... pints 
> smaller than litres... etc....

Centimetres are smaller than feet and yards, millilitres are smaller
than pints, and so on, and so forth. And I certainly can't imagine
anybody sane trying to measure anything in nanoinches, but nanometres
are regularly used.

> And on that note, at Greenwich Mean Time 0253, nite nite :)

Hmm. You apparently wrote your email in the future, since I make it only
0245 now...

        Ben

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