David A. Mann wrote:
Robert Harris writes:
We had rather stick with the more natural measurement system. I am sure
that some day the rest of the world comes to its senses and adopt it,
though. :)
IMO, the metric system is more logical...
Rubbish. As one distinguished Australian
Peifer, William [OCDUS] wrote:
You've inspired me! ... And my cars? Those factory-supplied
speedometers are coming out until I can replace the faceplates
with a scale calibrated in farthings per fortnight. BIG grin
Farthings? Sure you wouldn't be happier with Angstroms?
bigger grin
You've inspired me! ... And my cars? Those factory-supplied
speedometers are coming out until I can replace the faceplates
with a scale calibrated in farthings per fortnight. BIG grin
Farthings? Sure you wouldn't be happier with Angstroms?
bigger grin
Too inconvenient. Do you have any
Ivan Prenosil wrote:
If metric system was something you can buy, and there was enough advertising,
would Americans still resist ? :-)
Yes. We resist terrible ideas, like the Edsel and New Coke.
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Daniel J. Matyola mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stanley, Powers Matyola
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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.
Anyone know how many rods there are to a hogshead? I need to get my
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone know how many rods there are to a hogshead? I need to get my Whitworth*
tools recalibrated.
Beep! Error! Error! A hogshead is a measure of volume. A rod is a measure of length.
Beep!
Error! Error! Does not compute!
http://mdmetric.com/kdindex.htm
Regards,
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
Ivan Prenosil wrote:
In fact, the metric system simply reflects a French attempt to dominate
the world by defining its measurements, a failed attempt. While much of
the world was sucked into the trap, Americans have resisted mightily,
If metric system was something you can buy, and
: Re: Asahi vs Honeywell, now OT.
You've inspired me! ... And my cars? Those factory-supplied
speedometers are coming out until I can replace the faceplates
with a scale calibrated in farthings per fortnight. BIG grin
Farthings? Sure you wouldn't be happier with Angstroms?
bigger
Peifer, William [OCDUS] wrote:
You guys crack me up. Keep smilin'!
Wait until Friday, when we can stop being serious.
Bob Harris
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Subject: RE: Asahi vs Honeywell, now OT.
I thought farthings were a monetary unit. Are you sure you don't mean
furlong?
Furlongs per fortnight would be a measure of speed.
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I believe a Farthing is 2e+10 Nearthings.
BTW, yes, I am new here. I used to take a lot of pictures with a cheap 110
camera when I was a pre-adolescent but have had very little to do with
photography since then. I picked up an SF-10 in June and intend to mostly
lurk here and try to learn a
On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
Glad I missed all that. The change to decimal currency happened just as I was
starting to learn what money was all about. Then my parents whisked the family
off to the States.
Mark How many Angstroms to a Farthing Roberts
John Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:16
And my cars? Those factory-supplied speedometers are coming out until I
can replace the faceplates with a scale calibrated in farthings per
fortnight. BIG grin
Bill Peifer
Rochester, NY
Bill, wouldn't that be furlongs per full moon?
Joe
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Hadn't you noticed but each named unit of measure for volume in the
imperial system
is precisely twice or half as large as the next. (Ok there are exceptions),
In this respect the imperial system is binary.
At 09:44 AM 8/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
David A. Mann wrote:
Robert Harris writes:
It is and yes we would.
At 06:08 PM 8/21/2001 +0200, you wrote:
In fact, the metric system simply reflects a French attempt to dominate
the world by defining its measurements, a failed attempt. While much of
the world was sucked into the trap, Americans have resisted mightily,
If metric
Did you ever read an essay by Poul Anderson using Old English and Anglo
Saxon derived terminology to describe quantum effects?
At 04:14 PM 8/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
I believe a Farthing is 2e+10 Nearthings.
BTW, yes, I am new here. I used to take a lot of pictures with a cheap 110
camera
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
Actually The pound florin and shilling were the beginnings of a decimal
coinage. It was completed with the replacement of the old penny with new
pence.
Twenty shillings to the pound 10 Florins to the pound now each of those
coins were
directly replaced with the 5 np and 10np coins
... also stone weight.
From: John Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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