That's so much easier to remember..Cardinal Fang said:38 x 89 sounds better.
Next time I see Goob at the lumber yard counter I will make shure that I ask him for a 38 X 89 ten footer board.
That's so much easier to remember..Cardinal Fang said:38 x 89 sounds better.
...but they have the same problems in some areas, for instance horsepower in cars etc.. Cars are supposed to be rated in kilowatts (kw); 136 hp equal 100 kw. Nobody talks in "kw" in Europe and the public really hangs on tight to the old rating "hp".raydeon said:In Europe, two years after the old currencies were abandonned for the € (Euro) everyone is using Euros without difficulty. Why? Because after a one year of using both the new € and old multiple currencies (francs, marks, liras, crowns....) the only one in use was €. As long as we continue to use both systems we will never be fully metric.
You do not learn a new language by translating. You do by thinking directly in the new language. Canadians are just as smart as anybody else. Let's eliminate the obsolete Imperial measurement system.
500 grams.oldjones said:BTW, as any old guy knows, there are 1728 cu in in a cu ft; how much does half a litre of nice cold, say 4ºC, spring water weigh?
Probably makes sense to people who know nothing else. Try operating a machine in a machine shop. Most machines these days have a digital readout, ie 3.0000 inches. So if you are asked to mill off 9/16" from a block of steel you do what?oldjones said:divide in two's a half, half of that's 1/4, half of that's 1/8 etc. the Imperial system is the system that makes sense.