-----Original Message----- From: han_maenen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 2000-10-13 05:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: to y'all [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] I had to stop as the cheap phone rate had expired. Now I am on a public computer. 10 cm divided by 4 The 12 inch foot divided by 4 is equally as simple to do. I know that 10/4 yields a fraction, viz. 2.5. But why take offence at this simple fraction while ifp is riddled with fractions like 23/32, 45/64 etc? I loathe such fractions and in practice I have never needed to divide by 8 and further. The only thing metric does not do is make units out of binary and other divisions and this is as it should be. I do not want either ifp or a Napoleonic monstrosity. But metric measuring equipment enables people to use divisions as simply as in ifp. There is a range of material weights like 1/4, 1/2, 1 and 2 kg next to the strictly decimal sequence. The same can be done with liters. Simple to use and the subdivisions can be expressed in decimal fractions for calculations: 0.25 and 0.5 kg. Han --------------------------------------------- DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! --------------------------------------------- You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. Reply to this message: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricamerica &sid=12177109&mid=813 Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list Return to "Metric America": http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica ---------------------------------------------- Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&.g roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C
