2012/6/4 James Knott <[email protected]>: > John Hart wrote: >> >> >> The Metric system is just as idiotic as the English. Metric measurement is >> good for people limited to thinking terms of ten, but it's hard for the eye >> to divide and a millstone around the neck of carpenters not using CNC. So >> What! Please keep the left wing political rants off the list! > > > Why is it harder for an eye to divide than imperial? Most of those who rant > about the metric system are those who've never bothered to learn it. I was > also opposed to it, when I first came across it in high school science > classes, but having worked with it for many years, it's superiority is > clear. In the old "imperial" measures, there are a few different ounces. > An imperial gallon is larger than a U.S. but a U.S. ounce is larger than > imperial. And a U.S. gallon is 128 oz, but imperial 160. Does that make > sense??? It's also a lot easier to scale from, for example, centimetres to > kilometres, than inches to miles. In metric, that's a simply multiplication > by 10,000, but inches to miles is × 12 × 5280. Or do you prefer × 36 × > 1760? Power of 10 conversions make is a heck of a lot easier to do mental > calculations than multiplying all sorts of different numbers for the various > units. Lessee now, it's 12 inches to a foot, but 3 feet to a yard and 1760 > yards to a mile. Or 8 ounces to a cup and 4 cups to a quart. Or is that 5 > cups to a quart? Yeah, that makes for real easy mental arithmetic.
I agree, but 1 km=100 000 cm, not 10 000… ;P Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
