Everyone do this Quick ! Cheat all you want and use a normal calculator. SUBTRACT: 3 ft 9 and 13/16 inches FROM 12 ft 2 and 1/4 inches.
now do this one as well ....... SUBTRACT: 116.364 FROM 371.475 centimeters The two above measurements and activities are essentially the same. You have just seen the benefit of the metric system. You will save time and money because you will screw up less materials by cutting and or drilling it wrong sometimes several times before you get it right. The point is not so much the metric part but the decimal part that is so important. Joachim Saupe wrote: >Unfortunately, that attitude prevails here in the USA since most people >don't understand the simplicity of the metric system, where the meter is >the "yardstick", where a cube of 10cm x 10cm x 10cm has a volume of 1 liter >and when you fill this cube with water, it weighs 1 kilogramm. >Joachim >Ft Worth, Texas > >
