On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:13:03
Pat Naughtin wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>Thanks for all of your previous comments. Here are some more.
>
>Freelance: - We work about forty hours a week for about fifty weeks; that9s
>2000 hours. Freelance artists and graphic designers often calculate their
>hourly rate by dividing their planned annual salary by half this amount,
>that is, 1000.
>
I usually do the following. Get any hourly salary offer I get and multiply it by 2 to
find out what that is equivalent to yearly (in k's, obviously...). Conversely, I also
use my income tax return final figures and divide that by 2 to find out the minimum
"hourly rate" I'd be willing to work for! ;-)
>Freezer size: - When buying a refrigerator freezer you can estimate your
>needs by allowing 200 litres for two people plus 20 litres for each
>additional member of your family.
>
Interesting. In reality for some reason in Brazil they use 220 l/person, with a
"standard" 500-literer for a "standard" family of 5.
...
>Graves: - A human grave is 2.2 m long, 1 m wide, and 1.8 m deep. If you
>intend to bury more than one person in the same grave add 600 mm of extra
>depth for each body.
>
? Again, probably cultural, but our graves are actually 2 m deep (not 1.8!) - "10
palmos", onde o "palmo" e' 20 cm!... ;-) For lenght, if I'm not mistaken, it's
actually 2.25.
...
>Height: - Your child's adult height will be twice their height at 22 months.
>For example, if your child is 850 mm tall at 22 months, they will grow to
>about 1.7 m.
>...
Is that right?... Just a small observation, Pat, try showing height numbers as 1.70 m
(please don't forget the zero!... :-) The zero correctly identifies the accuracy of
the value that is supposed to be reported. Only rarely we hear people resorting to
0.5 cm increments) and as 85 cm, if they're less than a meter.
Marcus
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