Pat will love this story:
http://www.newschief.com/article/20100131/NEWS/1315040/1009/LIVING?p=1tc=pg
Wife measures in inches at home, and in centimeters in store. Great line, I
just thought they were small inches.
It ends questioning why we use the ruler of the ruler we overthrew in 1776
On 2010/01/31, at 23:14 , John M. Steele wrote:
Pat will love this story:
http://www.newschief.com/article/20100131/NEWS/1315040/1009/LIVING?p=1tc=pg
Wife measures in inches at home, and in centimeters in store. Great
line, I just thought they were small inches.
It ends questioning why we
/20100131/NEWS/1315040/1009/LIVING?p=1tc=pg
Wife measures in inches at home, and in centimeters in store. Great line, I
just thought they were small inches. It ends questioning why we use the ruler
of the ruler we overthrew in 1776 and advocates the US going metric.
Dear John,
Great story
! ;-)
From: pat.naugh...@metricationmatters.com
To: usma@colostate.edu
Subject: [USMA:46533] Re: Centimeters vs inches
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:02:07 +1100
On 2010/01/31, at 23:14 , John M. Steele wrote:
Pat will love this story:
http://www.newschief.com/article/20100131/NEWS/1315040
This story shows again that we should not use centimeter. It is
too close to inch.
Robert Bushnell
On Jan 31, 2010, at 5:14 AM, John M. Steele wrote:
Pat will love this story:
http://www.newschief.com/article/20100131/NEWS/1315040/1009/LIVING?
p=1tc=pg
Wife
to
inch. Robert Bushnell
On Jan 31, 2010, at 5:14 AM, John M. Steele wrote:Pat will love this
story:http://www.newschief.com/article/20100131/NEWS/1315040/1009/LIVING?p=1tc=pg
Wife measures in inches at home, and in centimeters in store. Great line, I
just thought
not use centimeter. It is
too close to inch.
Robert Bushnell
On Jan 31, 2010, at 5:14 AM, John M. Steele wrote:
Pat will love this story:
http://www.newschief.com/article/20100131/NEWS/1315040/1009/LIVING?p=1tc=pg
Wife measures in inches at home, and in centimeters in store. Great line, I
On Sunday 31 January 2010 17:55:56 Robert H. Bushnell wrote:
This story shows again that we should not use centimeter. It is
too close to inch.
By that reasoning, we shouldn't use the liter because it's too close to the
quart. I don't think that's the reason.
The real reason, I think, is
Robert H. Bushnell, Pierre sirs:
.is more likely to cause
order-of-magnitude errors than using two units,.
During my discussions with Late Dr. VB Mainkar (1975), then Director Weights
Measures (India), I pointed to such a disparity - especially for financial
transastions and the
I agree that the monthly, Automotive Engineering, used haphazard units.
Conferences, technical papers and standards (at least the ones I used) seemed
to better adhere to policy.
After I retired, I remained an SAE member for 2-3 years, then quit. One
(minor) factor was the units mess in the
It has been years since I have seen a Go Metric bumper sticker, but
there was one on a silver Subaru with a ski rack driving downhill on
I-80 in California today. Could it belong to one of our readers?
Aren't these bumper stickers sold by the USMA?
On centimeters: They are really useful for
I believe that the centimeter does have a place in everyday life. We need to
think not just in linear terms, but in areas and volumes as well.
Consider an area 400 mm x 200 mm. Area = 80 000 mm2 - not a practical number.
Or else 0.4 m x 0.2 m - 0.08 m2. Equally impractical. But 40 cm x 20
Forgot to add in my little scenario - the 1 L weighing 1 kg is of course only
for water.
John F-L
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