With the vehicles I've looked at in the past, it's been difficult to find any brochure with metric in it (in the US). Apart from the now familiar engine capacity in Liters that is.
Mike Payne
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From: john mercer
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: 03/2/04 19:19:52
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How about visualizing 14%, which to me means more than 1/7th.
Michael Payne
> Finally, sometimes fractions convey a meaning that the decimal loses.
For
> example, 1/7th conveys meaning (I'm dividing something into 7 equal
parts)
> that is lost when written 0.14286. I'm more comfortable visua
The International standard atmosphere of 1013 hPa is used for calibration
of aircraft instruments and performance charts. I would still think of one
atmosphere however as 1000 hPa.
Michael Payne
> [Original Message]
> From: Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The calculation might look like this:
Being "offended" over a boob is wellchildish.
People are searching out for things to be offended at. Not sure why, but
they do it.
JJ's boob is just the latest.
At 10:28 2004-02-07, Carleton MacDonald wrote:
I think the issue is that it was done deliberately and gratuitously, for
shock valu
I think the issue is that it was done deliberately and gratuitously, for
shock value only. Quite different than doing it in context, in a serious
movie. It became the acting out of adolescents, and that is what ticked
everyone off.
cm
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At 07 02 04, 10:26 AM, Gene Mechtly wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Chimpsarecute wrote:
> ...
> In Germany, ...
>
> In the US, the 3 phases on the pole are at 13.5 kV line to line...
Not true. In the US, three phase transformers are found only at
"substations" on concrete, surrounded by wire fences.
A
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Chimpsarecute wrote:
> ...
> In Germany, ...
>
> In the US, the 3 phases on the pole are at 13.5 kV line to line...
Not true. In the US, three phase transformers are found only at
"substations" on concrete, surrounded by wire fences.
A maximum of three or four houses are serve
Bill Hooper wrote:
No, Michael, I am not personally offended by the display for a woman's
breast or many other sexually suggestive acts. (I myself won a dance
contest with topless dancers at a Paris night club a few years ago.) The
difference here is that the audience was predictably composed
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