Yes, people who complain about the metric system apparently don't realize that they are using it without even knowing it. The United States adopted the metric standard for the inch in 1959.
All of our customary units are now defined in terms of the metric system. The call is coming from inside the house! Eric Keller Boalsburg, Pennsylvania On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 9:10 AM Roland Jollivet <roland.jolli...@gmail.com> wrote: > And by the way, (maybe already mentioned?), the inch used to vary in length > until it was defined as a function of the metre. > So the Americans are working in metric, but converted by 2.54 ... > > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 at 13:17, Peter Blodow <p.blo...@dreki.de> wrote: > > > P.S: People who are used to sixteenths of the width of a medieval thumb, > > the weight of rocks used in throwing competitions and the volume of > > barrels way too heavy for carrying as measures should not argue > > earnestly in public about metric decimal units... > > No offence! Peter Blodow > > > > Am 24.02.2019 um 11:29 schrieb Peter Blodow: > > > Andy, > > > the use of those length units depends on the circle who uses them. > > > Woodworkers use cm, metalworkers mm, opticians micrometers, nuclear > > > scientists nanometers. The aim is to leave off unused zeroes, either > > > in front or after the decimal point. Hectoliters are the most > > > important measure of beer hereabouts because it is convenient to > > > simply count barrels instead pouring beer in bulky liquid measures, > > > and Austrian houewives buy their sausage and meat in Deka's. > > > > > > By the way, the Gramm is very well named after a dead scientist: Saxo > > > Grammaticus, living in the middle ages around 1100, famous Danish > > > historian, who wrote a history of Denmark in 16 volumes. He even > > > attempted to write an English grammar - English and Danish were not so > > > far apart in those days -, but failed because it would have become too > > > heavy for the reason of the many exceptions to its rules (at the time, > > > there were such). Therefore, the unit of weight was named after him. > > > > > > My best regards! > > > Peter Blodow > > > Dipl.-Phys. > > > > > > Am 24.02.2019 um 10:31 schrieb andy pugh: > > >> > > >> The hecto, centi, deci, deka are deprecated in SI, so cm should not > be > > >> used. > > >> > > >> I am a bit annoyed that the base mass unit is the kg, ie that it has > an > > >> embedded prefix. That is one unit that could very usefully be named > > >> after a > > >> dead scientist. > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
