Farthing Forth of a penny. (Before my time as well but look at the root word).
At 02:15 PM 8/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >> 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.
>
>--
>Mark Roberts
>www.robertstech.com
>
>
>--
>Mark Roberts
>www.robertstech.com
>
>
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