Hi :) Going to the moon by foot sounds a tad tricksy. So, sometimes base 12, sometimes base 20, sometimes base 8 (i think?) and sometimes base (some horribly high number). I wonder if adult numeracy rates would improve if they just stuck with base 10 for everything. Not sure it worked here tbh Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >To: Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com>; "users@global.libreoffice.org" ><users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 18:05 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes > > >Hi :) >Even NASA use feet and inches. How many feet left to dock. Even their plans >to go to the moon go by feet. I wonder if half the computers they use are >purely to convert between feet and miles and another half to convert to the >metric systems used by everyone else they co-ordinate with. >Regards from >Tom :) > > > > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> >>To: users@global.libreoffice.org >>Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 16:48 >>Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 >>sizes >> >>On 02/21/2013 10:59 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: >>> On 02/21/2013 04:01 AM, Marc Paré wrote: >>>> Le 2013-02-20 21:33, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit : >>>>> On 02/20/2013 05:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote: >>>>>> At 14:36 20/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote: >>>>>>> Europe A4 size >>>>>> >>>>>> Perhaps that should be >>>>>> "everywhere-in-the-world-except-the-United-States-and-Canada A4 size". >>>>>> >>>>>> Brian Barker >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I do not know about the rest of the world. >>>>> I knew that Europe tend to use A4. >>>>> >>>>> Why USA and Canada uses "letter size" when the rest use A4, who knows. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Here is a short history on it: >>>> >>>> http://www.serif.com/blog/a-quick-history-on-a4-and-letter-paper-sizes/ >>>> >>>> Canada follows the US for obvious reasons. IMO, I would rather follow with >>>> the A4 and metric sizes, we should all be following the metric sizing. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Marc >>>> >>> >>> The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time. We are >>> using more metric in manufacturing, but for use in the home or business, >>> people grew up learning the "English" system of feet/inches, pounds/ounces, >>> cup/gallon, instead of all of the base-ten metric measurements. >>> >>> Yes, if we taught our kids from the early ages to use metric along with >>> what we use now, maybe we can get them to be more use to the metric system >>> so we can move to it someday as an equal to our current system. Of course, >>> business use letter size paper, letter size storage, letter size >>> presentation devices to hold their letter size paper, and the list goes on >>> and on. All those things that are based on the letter size paper and >>> cannot fit the A4 size paper will have to be replaced so they can fit both >>> sizes - as a standard size - before business will be thinking about using >>> A4 regularly. >> The thing that matters most in the USA is economics. When it becomes >>more economical to use the metric system, we will change very rapidly. In the >>past, we produced soft drinks in the quart size. When the demand for >>packaging them in liters for sale overseas, two different measuring systems increased their costs. So, large soft drink containers were produced exclusively in liters sizes to save money. >> I suppose the equivalent for printers is this: when it becomes cheaper >>to make a printer which will print A4 (and thus letter size with a small >>added border) and the demand is high enough, printers will rather quickly >>change to using A4 as the standard size. >> All of this is my personal opinion, of course. >> >>--Dan >> >>-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >>Problems? >>http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted >> >> >> >> > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
