Dear All,
As a response to my ABC radio broadcast yesterday I received an email
from a primary school teacher (Year 4). Here is the teacher's letter
and my response.
Dear Teacher (name removed),
I have interspersed some remarks in red.
Pat,
Last night (or rather, early this morning on
Dear All,
You might find this quotation interesting:
At the same time as you are going to buy a new book, invest in a set
of accurate, decent quality digital scales. I prefer to use the
metric system, as it is easy to multiply up and divide down using 10s,
100s and 1000s. And you can,
Dear All (and especially Stan Jakuba),
Those of you who are interested in the cost of solar energy might be
interested in the article at http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10003903/ldk-solars-acquisition-strategy-not-a-bright-future
where they say:
Additionally, too much industry capacity
The dime (10¢ piece) is the smallest US coin. Back when we used real silver,
it was the smallest silver coin, the quarter, half dollar, and dollar coins
being larger (presumably in proportion to weight?). The penny and nickel (5¢)
were always base metals. Now, they all are. The modern
By household measurement in this context, I mean just plain, old measurement.
For length, it is done with millimeters, of course.
I am still the owner of a traditional cathode ray tube television, but the
sight of an HDTV display in a store blew me away, so I am considering joining
the 21st
I used to disagree with measuring everything in millimetres. I believed (for
some reason) that not refering to 10mm as 1cm and 100cm as 1 metre would be
confusing to people, I can now see that one unit of measurement, the
millimetre, is better and far less confusing. I believe millimetres
The US coins and the corresponding Canadian coins (through the loonie) are
pretty much the same size. The US has no equivalent to the Canadian $2 coin
(the 'toonie').
It is an incredible and unfortunate waste that the unnecessary $1 bill is still
in production, but the same mentality
Stephen,In the car industry the 'thou' is still in use. It's commonly used
when repairing engines after a blown head gasket (the mating faces have to be
'polished' back to be flat and square.
From: stevo.da...@btinternet.com
To: usma@colostate.edu
Subject: [USMA:47131] Re: household
The US and Canadian coins (1c, 5c, 10c and 25c) are nominally the same,
certainly same diameter and thickness, but differences in metals used in their
manufacture mean that they are not always interchangable in vending machines
and the like. As the Canadians coins are (usually - current week
Respectfully, as a customer of the money, I disagree.
We have the dollar coin for those who prefer it. However, if one must carry a
number of $1 denomination units, coins are over 8X heavier than bills, occupy a
slightly larger volume, and are certainly more damaging to the pants pocket. I
You will find that some models have their speakers on the side, some on the
bottom. Given your aspect ratio, a TV with bottom speakers will fit better or
allow you to have a larger size. The side mounted speakers make the unit very
wide compared to screen size. The models are sold in
I have to agree about the $1 bill. But of course this isn't the only problem
with the US dollar. Our coins are illogical. The coins say things like
one penny, one dime, and quarter dollar instead of their actual value
of 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, and 25¢. The sizes of the coins also don't increase with
The reason we have the dollar coin is to replace the dollar bill. They
tried with the Sacagawea dollar and now they have the new presidential
dollar coins. However, they did not stop printing the dollar bill and the
coins have failed to catch on and that's why we have this mess.
Also we don't
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