Kilopascal;
I must agree with your thoughts on confusion.
A few years of my life have been spent working directly with industries to help convert there older standards scales ranging from the littlest of scales to some of the bigger ones that can weigh trains.
During this time a many of companies spend $30,ooo.oo on a truck scale that would read standards as well as metric readings. The price seemed to be looked at as the cost to do business in modern society. It seems a lot spent to assure accurate measures but does minimize the loss of product due to bad or older equipment.
The government has played a large part in the push toward making metric conversion in contracts and other daily applications to become a reality.
Having seen this first hand I know that sow many people are often confused about the metric conversion process.
Sow many of the schools in this country have not stressed the fact that deci*** is the first place holder past the decimal point. I have found that the centi*** is often the first and most pushed expression of metric measure to be taught. This seems to leave some people with a sense of confusion. " tens or hundreds or well a gee" Hundred seems to be a big number to keep track using only ten fingers to count with. This sorta confusion runs deep and interferes with good metric practice.
Point: Educate the children with some in the face daily metric expression.
Maybe they will grow up and become politicians that get it all straight.
Thanks for letting me bent the ears again. Tim
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Subj: [USMA:25338] Confused!
Date: 3/27/03 12:10:39 AM Eastern Standard Time
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2003-03-27
I'm a bit confused about something. The dictator and his coven of terrorists wants to rape the American taxpayer to the tune of 75 G$ (70 G€) to pay for his illegal invasion of Iraq. Can you imagine how far that much money would go towards something as useful as metrication? It would cover the cost of highway conversion, the cost of converting scales, and a whole lot more. But, metrication which would increase efficiency in our industries is not work one cent, But the murder of civilians is worth billions of dollars (milliards of euros).
Can someone explain to me the logic behind this?
John
