Could someone please ask Mr Lineacre how 240p to the pound is simpler to
understand than 100p to the pound; or how 12p to the shilling is easier to
understand than 5p to the shilling; or indeed, how 120p making up 0.5 of
£1:00 is simpler to understand than 50p making up 0.5 of £1:00??
Regards
2001-09-23
Why bother, you will never get an answer? Of all the questions that I had
Han post to them, they only were able to answer one (about why picture tubes
for TV's and Monitors are still in inches) of the questions posed to them,
the rest they ignored, and continue to ignore. Plus,
Steven Davis wrote:
Could someone please ask Mr Lineacre how 240p to the pound is simpler to
understand than 100p to the pound; or how 12p to the shilling is easier to
understand than 5p to the shilling; or indeed, how 120p making up 0.5 of
£1:00 is simpler to understand than 50p making up 0.5 of
2001-09-23
I'm curious as to how an old type cash register worked when it had to
display £sd. Since decimalisation occurred before digital types came out,
I doubt any modern cash registers ever had to display or calculate £sd.
John
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From: Bill Potts [EMAIL
To all,
I explored the site too and at first I found only SI, as Bill did. John
is right as well, however.
http://66.34.95.89/SITO_english/Pag/PagMeteoE.htm
was a home page, Meteo Informations. On the left side of the screen I
clicked all weather sites. They were metric except Meteo Yahoo.
Steven Davis wrote:
I would challenge ANYONE in the BWMA to find out what farthings, tanners
and
bobs amounted to in pennies (pre or post decimal) WITHOUT looking it up!!
The older members will remember, so they won't need to find it out.
You're probably right about the younger members, though
2001-09-23
The older ones MAY remember. Since £sd hasn't been used in 30 years and
memory fades over time, I'm sure even those old farts will have trouble
remembering. Unless, they did the mental drills daily in the possibility
that £sd might return.
I've spoken with immigrants who came from
Kilopacal asked in USMA 15342:
I'm curious as to how an old type cash register worked when it had to
display £sd. Since decimalisation occurred before digital types came out,
I doubt any modern cash registers ever had to display or calculate £sd.
John
Elementary, my dear John.
The
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:11:59 -0400, kilopascal
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2001-09-23
The older ones MAY remember. Since £sd hasn't been used in 30 years and
memory fades over time, I'm sure even those old farts will have trouble
remembering. Unless, they did the mental drills daily in the
Joe Reid wrote:
The rightmost wheel displayed the farthings as fractions of a penny. The
next wheel showed pennies from 0 to 11. Then a wheel displayed shillings
from 0 to 9. The next wheel showed shillings, 0 or 1 (for 10 shillings).
Finally there were wheels for pounds. On February 15,
Well, Steven, I AM well over 50 -- by almost sixteen years.
At least one member of this list is old enough to be my father (and, many
years ago, was my boss).
Bill Potts, Old Fart (which is better than the alternative)
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original
Gene Mechtly wrote in USMA 15324:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I'm still puzzled why the CGPM ... doesn't seriously entertain
adopting a prefixless term for the SI unit of mass.
Probable Reason:
Entrenched Tradition is stronger than motivation for Elegant Clarity
in this
Personally, I care not one whit which name they choose. In fact, the name can be the
one they (CGPM) disagree on the least vehemently (and perhaps the only such one), thus
likely making it not at all interesting.
A small price to pay in my view to correct the most glaring flaw that I
Stephen Davis wrote in USMA 15339
Could someone please ask Mr Lineacre how 240p to the pound is simpler to
understand than 100p to the pound; or how 12p to the shilling is easier to
understand than 5p to the shilling; or indeed, how 120p making up 0.5 of
£1:00 is simpler to understand than 50p
Hence the Benny Hill line (possibly plagiarized) as a washroom attendant
in a loo to a hopeful user, Do you have 2p?
Jim
Joseph B. Reid wrote:
Stephen Davis wrote in USMA 15339
Could someone please ask Mr Lineacre how 240p to the pound is simpler to
understand than 100p to the pound; or
I was aware that the old symbol for British pennies was d as in 4d and 6d.
I was just using the modern equivalent because I am used to using the
decimal equivalent.
When my Mam and Dad talked about using LSD in the 60's, I was most
disappointed to discover they were only talking about old
Rumour has it, James, that this joke was first mentioned in the Lindisfarne
Gospels by the Venerable Bede!!
He also said he'd heard it!!
Regards,
Steve.
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From: James R. Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
My mother left Britain in 1960, (and without giving away
her exact age, because she'd kill me if I did), let's just
say she was an adult when she left.
I asked her if she could tell me how many pennies were
in a farthing, a tanner and a bob
She easily remembered.
Tanner - 6d
Bob (slang for
2001-09-23
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.That is absolutely priceless. I love it! You
know, every now and then, we need some good humour.
Thanks Jim for sharing this with us.
John
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From: James R. Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL
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