Oh yes, I see. I always wondered why the money was based on the 'ten' system . I now know ----
I own a scale from a bank in England. While there in the 60th and 70th, you had to do everything with sixpence, phoning, your shower in your bed and breakfast, your little cooking stove. Have no sixpence, you showered under cold water. I made so many phone calls to the US and Germany, I was forever going to the bank to exchange my pound notes into sixpence. The teller did not count, he put a pound weight unto a wonderful brass scale and then poured the sixpence into the other side until it evened out. That was a pound of sixpence. - This intrigued me so much, I bought a scale. It sits in my kitchen, gets use still, but not to count a pound of sixpence. - I can tell other stories about sixpence. When the phone booth phone boxes were full and the authorities did not empty them quickly, you were able to call free of charge to wherever you phoned. I phoned for free to US and Germany from the booth in Salisbury as I went to visit Stonehenge , and from the booth in Harwich harbour before crossing with the ferry, a tip one of the crew on the ship told me about. "Miss", he said, "wait until everybody made a call and said 'good bye', then you call shortly before the ship leaves, the box will be full and the call is free. "I took that advice every time I crossed the Channel. ( I just could not resist telling you all this memory story) Marta On Apr 24, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Anne Cartwright wrote: > Remember Marta, we (USA) have used the 10-based system where it is important. > (money and alcohol). > > Anne > > > > On Apr 24, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> Happy Easter everybody- here it rains and thunders still!! >> >> While I don't understand, Bill , what it i all about, I like the 10 based >> usage. At least it sounds more 21st century. I appreciate all the zeros. >> >> Now hopefully we will get rid of our foot and inch system , too, sometime. I >> have lived in this country since 1950 and still have trouble, I always >> change into the 10 system in my mind when I measure rugs and curtains and >> the like. Where I read feet I always divide by three which at least gives me >> a general feeling of meters, then I know where I am in my mind. >> Marta >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 24, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Bill Rising wrote: >> >>> On Apr 23, 2011, at 23:59 , Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: >>> >>>> Before I updated to snow leopard I had 58gb of free space on my hard >>>> drive. After the update I have 70 gb of free space. Where did I get the >>>> extra space? >>> >>> I think that Snow Leopard installed only some of the printer drivers, and >>> was generally a smaller OS than Leopard. Also: Snow Leopard uses 10-based >>> kilo/mega/giga whereas all earlier OSes use 2-based. This means: >>> >>> Old OSes >>> 1 KB = 2^10 bytes = 1,024 bytes >>> 1 MB = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes >>> 1 GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes >>> >>> Snow Leopard and Disk Manufacturers: >>> 1 KB = 10^3 = 1,000 bytes >>> 1 MB = 10^6 = 1,000,000 bytes >>> 1 GB = 10^9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes >>> >>> So... even without the smaller OS, your old 58GB would have become a little >>> over 62GB just because of the new accounting. >>> >>> Bill >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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