Re: [R] [OT ?] rant (was : Re: Conversions From standard to metricunits)
Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 20:01 -0400, Murray Cooper a écrit : > For science yes. For pleasure I'll still take a pint instead of 570ml! Yes, but do you realize that you'll have to pee in fl. oz ? Aie ... Emmanuel Charpentier __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] [OT ?] rant (was : Re: Conversions From standard to metricunits)
G'day Murray, On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:01:30 -0400 "Murray Cooper" wrote: > For science yes. For pleasure I'll still take a pint instead of 570ml! And you might experience a disappointment then if you order it in the US where the pint is apparently 450ml; at least, I won several bets on whether a pint is less or more than half a litre against American visitors The stake being, of course, the next round of drinks. :) And, if memory serves correctly, here in Singapore I once ordered a pint of draught beer and was served half a litre... Confused me completely... That's when I thought that the metric system is so much safer until I ordered my next beer, according to the menu a bottled beer of 400ml, it came in a 333ml bottle... Cheers, Berwin === Full address = Berwin A TurlachTel.: +65 6515 4416 (secr) Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability+65 6515 6650 (self) Faculty of Science FAX : +65 6872 3919 National University of Singapore 6 Science Drive 2, Blk S16, Level 7 e-mail: sta...@nus.edu.sg Singapore 117546http://www.stat.nus.edu.sg/~statba __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] [OT ?] rant (was : Re: Conversions From standard to metricunits)
For science yes. For pleasure I'll still take a pint instead of 570ml!
Murray
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From: "Rolf Turner"
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Subject: Re: [R] [OT ?] rant (was : Re: Conversions From standard to
metricunits)
On 4/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 14:17 -0400, stephen sefick a écrit :
I am starting to use R for almost any sort of calculation that I need.
I am a biologist that works in the states, and there is often a need
to convert from standard units to metric units.
US/Imperial units are *not* standard units. The former "metric system"
is now called "Système International" (International System) for a
reason, which is *not* gallocentrism of a "few" 6e7 frogs, but rather
laziness of about 5.6e9 losers who refuse to load their memories with
meaningless conversion factors...
Right on, Red Freak!!!
cheers,
Rolf
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