>> Too inconvenient. Do you have any idea how many Angstroms there are to
>> a Farthing?
>
>Neither me nor units(1) has ever heard of farthing. But it does know
>furlong, which is about 2e+12 Angstroms.
A farthing is an old unit of (British) currency. 1/6 of a penny, I believe
(it was before my time).
>> Anyone know how many rods there are to a hogshead? I need to get my
>> Whitworth* tools recalibrated.
>
>units(1) says 'conformability error', which isn't to surprising, as rod
>is a linear and hogshead a volume measure.
The real reason it isn't surprising is that I was being facetious :-P
(I thought the "Angstroms per Farthing" conversion would have given it away,
but none of the British contingent piped up quickly enough on that one.)
>But there are about 533.4 hogsheads in a cubic rod. ;-)
What we really need is a system of measurement that quantifies the units
we already use: "gobs", "sh*tloads", "scads", "heaps", etc.
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Mark Roberts
www.robertstech.com
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Mark Roberts
www.robertstech.com
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