I have many meters, mostly french, but also some german, Italian
and and chinese ones.
ALL are marked at every cm (all have the mm graduation, anyway)
starting from 0 to 99.
Full decimeters are marked 1m20 and so on (the meter is larger
size than the cm figures) . Cm restart from every meter, so for a
certain part it is more similar to your "american way"
I have seen also tapes that have only the dm numbered (again
m.cm - in this case these does not have the mm marks)
I have seen the cm above 100 only on double meters (that is tape
or rods 2 meter or less long).
On 26 Oct 00, at 13:31, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
> This is a correction to my USMA 8775:
>
> >This posting is not intended to dispute Dennis's arguments. He
> >demonstrates that only a planned and coordinated conversion program
> >can be successful. I only want to comment on a misconception that
> >exists on the American measuring tapes that I have seen.
> American style:
> 2 m
> . 60 70 80 90 *500* 10 20
> 30 . | | |
> | | | | |
> ii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|i
> iii|i
>
> European style:
> 246 247 248 249 *250* 251 252
> 253
> | | | | | | |
> |
> .ii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|iiii|i
> iii|i
>
> >I think that the European style of centimetre numbers at every
> >centimetre is easier to read and much less subject to error in
> >reading than the American style of millimetre numbers at each
> >centimetre. Beyond 1 m the American tape is especialy harder to
> >read. The metre numbers are given in small red characters every
> >decimetre along with the 100 millimetre numbers. So, in reading an
> >American tape one has to refer to the preceding decimetre to pick up
> >the insignificant red metre number and the bold 100 millmetre number,
> >and merge these two numbers with the millimetre number at the
> >preceding centimetre.
>
>
Leonardo Boselli
nucleo informatico e telematico
Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
Universita` di Firenze
V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333
http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
