Centigrade? It always thought it's Celsius. :) Joe
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:16 AM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting; centigrade is the one system I use nowadays without having to > think much about it. It's so easy: 0s are cold, 10s are cool, 20s are > warm, 30s are hot. > > I get kilometers but I think in miles. For short measurements I like > centimeters and millimeters, but I couldn’t tell you how tall I am in cm. > I'm happy in either pounds or kilos, but I'd have to calculate to tell you > how many kg I weigh. But centigrade makes complete sense to me. > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* If you read the New Testament with an Old-Covenant heart, it will be > just > Law to you. Likewise, if you read the Old Testament with a New-Covenant > heart, you will see Christ in all of it. -Rick Joyner, “The Apostolic > Ministry” */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Jackson, Rob > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 23:23 > > It disturbs me that I agree with Shmuel three times in as many days. > > Tony, what's your mass here lately after Insanity-19? Let's have it in > slugs, please, since that's the unit. Take you a dram and a scruple; add > in > a grain or two for precision, but make sure you convert it to mass. > > American standard--Imperial units; they're rubbish. Abject garbage. SI is > not a fad, despite its origins. No fan of the "French;" no fan of "Trump;" > no fan of anything political. But SI, revised a couple times or three, is > a > beautiful system of units in which one may compute physics. If you > disagree, then I assert you have a challenge understanding many things > about > physics. I'm talking about mechanics and fluid dynamics. I'm too stupid > for E&M, although the same equivalency attempts apply there. > > P.S. Apparently Imperial units have been redefined as relative to SI. > Imagine that. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Imperial-unit > > P.P.S. This reminds me of many conversations with my father. He > absolutely > couldn't stand this type of thing, i.e. SI being obviously superior. I > don't get it. It is what it is. > > As a disclaimer, I'm not a complete bigot. I say miles and yards; but I > have this nasty habit of converting them to meters in my mind every time I > say them. The one thing I cannot get used to in every-day life is Celsius > degrees. I think in Fahrenheit degrees. Oddly enough, since they're > exactly the same thing, I find it easier to talk in Kelvins rather than > Celsius degrees. Maybe I just like starting at zero. :) I couldn't tell > you what absolute zero in Fahrenheit is; I guess I never cared. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of > Seymour J Metz > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 5:02 PM > > The practical value doesn't depend on how it started. Yes, I could say all > sorts of things about how the mob interpreted "Liberté, égalité, > fraternité", but it doesn't change the fact that nobody understands the > English system of units. How many gills in a gallon? (That's a trick > question; it depends on which kind of gallon.) How many ounces in a ton? > Can > you convert furlongs per fortnight to miles per hour? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
