On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:35 AM dave engvall <dengv...@charter.net> wrote:
> > > On 7/23/20 7:53 AM, Bari wrote: > > It's really not a big deal. Engineering and science is full of math > > operations that you have to jump to all the time. If it is too > > difficult find someone else that is not a complainer to help you. > > > > > > On 7/23/20 12:34 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > > > >> Why on Earth do people still use US units? OK if your final result > >> must > >> be expressed that way, but do the math in metric then convert at the > >> end. > > > > Careful Chris ... you are being logical. ;-) Politics and logic are > > rarely in the same room. But then I'm an old grump. We had our chance > > to convert when we build the interstate hwy system. If we had > > converted to Km and liters at that time we might be metric by now. Any > > manufacturing that competes internationally converted long ago. The > > military converted long ago but in the '60's the grid was metric but > > the heights were still in feet. > Dave > And yet, global navigation is still done in terms of latitude and longitude, using nautical miles. In the age of computers and calculators, who cares what units are being used? it's not like anybody is doing calculations longhand anymore. Mark _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
