Dear Han, I like the idea of the metric inch.
Next time I'm in a television or computer store and the attendant describes a screen as 21 inch, I will respectfully enquire whether they are international inches, survey inches, television inches (the short ones), or metric inches. The more confusion the better, say I. Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia on 2002-08-02 04.10, Han Maenen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The BWMA knows, but does not care how Imperial units are standardized, but > they are clever enough never to mention it on their website. They cannot > afford to show how Imperial and USC are standardized and > do not stand on their own feet. It was one of their answers to me that > they did not care about the way the inch and other ifp units are being > defined. > > The UKIP does not know anything about this issue anyway. To them metric = > European = trash. Period. > > The inch has always been a fraction below or above 25.4 mm. They simply > settled at choosing the value of 25.4 mm exactly for their 'metric' inch. > They simply did not bother about choosing 25.6 mm and therefore provide > more rational metric conversions. Maybe if they knew, they would block it > anyway to prevent any easy access to metrication. > > Some places, etc. in Ireland are called Inch. These are usually very small > hamlets. > There is also an Inch river, Inch strand on Dingle Peninsula and Inchicore > in Dublin. There are the train maintenance works of Iarnrod Eireann (Irish > Rail) and the old historic Kilmainham Gaol, where many Irish patriots were > locked up and a number of them put to death by hanging and shooting. > What would our 'humoristic 'opponents say? They would say that villages > named Inch must now be called 25.4 mm Village, Inch Strand becomes 25.4 mm > Strand, Inch River 25.4 mm River and Inchicore becomes 25.4mmcore! > But Inch as a village is Ince in Irish, while the unit inch is orlach in > Irish; troigh is foot, slat is yard. > > Inch-foot-pound: orlach-troigh-punt. > > Han > Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, 2002-08-01 5:49 > Subject: [USMA:21469] Re: Inch > > >> 2002-07-31 >> >> In Great Britain the National Physical Laboratory made comparisons of the > Imperial Standard Yard to the International Meter, which yielded differing > values for the inch over the years. The 1922 value of 25.399956 mm per inch > by was arbitrarily selected for use in calibrating the most precise > measuring devices. >> >> Could one assume correctly that the UKIP and the BWMA would not recognize > the 25.4 mm definition, but continue to recognize the value of the inch > based on the Imperial Standard Yard? Has anyone who has received > information from their sources ever received a definitive answer from them > on how they define the inch? > >> John > > > >
