You might recall this childhood rhyme: Oh what a wicked web we weave
when first we practice to deceive.
Perhaps we could rephrase this as: Oh how our minds we do pervert when
first we practice to convert!
See the first few paragraphs at http://cycling-review.com/2010/01/17/bike-tire-reviews
to see how you can use old pre-metric measures to confuse yourself
almost completely before you finish up with the sane well known SI
unit – watt.
See http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/ApproachesToMetrication.pdf
on how to avoid conversions to speed up you metric transition.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for
their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many
different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial
and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA.
Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST,
and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com
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