On December 22, 2001 07:37 pm, Jay Nugent wrote: One thing that was nice about a Canadian high school education was using the metric system 98% of the time. Of course, now in university, it's about 50/50.... I've begun to realize what a pain imperial conversions are as opposed to the base-10 conversions of the metric system.
David Aikema > > That's one thing about us rude colonials we still use the mother > > country's measuring system so we don't have to remember all those > > complicated math formulas. > > Too bad we blew it back in the late 70's, early 80's when we were > *supposed* to move over to the metric system. Base-10 is FAR better a > measurement scale than Base-the-kings-feet and other arbitrary scales. > > 0c = pure water freezes 32f > 100c = pure water boils (at sea level) 212f > > 1g = 1cc pure water (in liquid state) > > 1calorie = raise 1cc pure water 1c in 1minute > > Dang! Nice how dimensional measurements and mass and temperature all > relate to one another like that :-) _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
