On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:29 PM, McCarthy, Tom (xwave) wrote:
> If memory serves, Canada went metric around 1976 (silver jubilee?), > and that would put TomB in about grade 2 at that time. So while > his formal schooling would have emphasized the metric system, his > parents (and even peers just a few years older than him (I'm > looking at you, Jimbo)) would be conversant primarily with Imperial > units, and so there's good exposure to both. > > Most Canadians my age / TomB's age can easily convert common linear > measures, volumes, temperatures and weights on the fly (3m = 10', 4 > L ~ 1 US gallon, 331 ml beer is called a pint, *9/5+32, 0.9 kg ~ 2 > lbs). > > That said, I was tripped up at Thanksgiving (which is recently past > in Canada) on the conversion from litres to gallons ... I knew the > US gallons number, but not the other. > One thing I've had lots of fun converting back and forth from is Imperial weights to US weights. They're different outside of pounds. Hundredweight and Tons (long and short). Not usually an issue unless you're referring to the manual for an armored car trying to figure out how much it should weigh (aside from whether or not it's been "bombed up" or not). Hmm, Weight of a Daimler Armoured car..., 7.5 tons in weight. that's probably Long Tons, which really means, it's 16,800 lbs, NOT 14,000 lbs. That 2,800 lb difference can be significant enough to be a large cost difference (Or fine difference if you're overweight on the highway). Of course the difference between being loaded up for fighting the Hun and being empty in display form, can be significant. The Humber Armoured car can have up to 70 rounds of 37mm AP and HE plus around 3000 rounds of 7.92mm on board and we'll never have that much, so there's not as much issue to having the "full" weight available for transport....BUT....one never knows... Quick, some one tell me the cargo capacity of a British 15cwt truck. ;-) What's even more fun is talking Miles, yards and degrees in navigation with the Yank Re-enactors who are using Mils and trying to use meters because they're thinking in Modern US Army speak.... "Meters old boy? I don't think the Kings Regulations use Meters as a standard unit of measure..." _______________________________________________ Gzg-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ground Zero Games" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gzg-group?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
