And even fewer know that rods and chains are legal units of measure either.
It would be interesting to know the real reasons for the various units of measure as a historical tidbit. Much of that information seems to be lost to the general population. I grew up with imperial measures, but as metric comes even to the heartland of the US, I do find it challenging to do the conversions in my head. Even worse than length and area measures are energy and torque measures. I look forward to the day that we are all in the same units, but it won't happen in my lifetime. Hopefully in my grand kids. The conversion I thought that was odd was Shell Oil (part of Royal Dutch Shell) converted all the pumps to liters. They were stoic and stayed with it for quite a while. Eventually they went back to gallons in the US, because their market wasn't ready. Actually I think that metric system was legislated to be the official units back in the Carter administration (I could be remembering wrong), but the markets didn't follow, because customers didn't buy in. With reading and writing in groups like this and others, sharing products between metric and imperial based countries, the conversion will happen naturally. But it will be slow. When I was in school, we had to know the mks, cgs, and imperial units for weights, measures, energy, mass, power, etc. ... but living in an imperial mostly society we tend to forget. My daughter just got a birthday present from a NZ friend. I thought it was interesting there are both imperial and metric measures (not intermixed, on a recipe by recipe basis). It would be nice to get a 'simple' conversion. (half cup is roughly 50ml? kind of thing for her) I was wondering is the international standards on trading gold or diamonds in imperial or metric? I really don't know. ... ><> ... Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
