Yes, you are right that it is 20.1168 metre to be precise! But, my point was to 'rationalise' and possibly be for the NOTING for *Sports authorities* as I also pointed in my several previous postings.
To add more to my previous mail, India had very precise measuremt system for weights:
5 Rati = 1 Masha; 12 Masha = 1 Tola; 5 Tola = 1 Chhatank; 16 Chhatank = 1 seer; 40 seer = 1 Maund.
So you could see - 1 Maund was divided into 192000 parts or Rati which is a herbal bead (red & black) in colour and ofen was used by *Goldsmith workers*.
What I have been impressing in my mails is the fact that SI-Units have not found their rightful place and we "delibrately or otherwise revert back to old units* rather that talk & THINK of SI-metric Units.
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
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Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!
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From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:26414] RE: Newton Kansan Online - Some measures don't add up 07-16-03.htm
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:48:37 -0700
Brij Bushan Vij wrote: This 100-link chain you refer is 66 feet or 22 yards, the distance between *wickets between bails in CRICKET field*. This is really 20 metre.
It's actually almost 12 cm longer than 20 m, so it's incorrect to say that a
distance of 22 yards is really 20 m. It's really 20.12 m (to the nearest
cm).
However, if you were to say that, for all practical purposes, we could (and should) set the length of a cricket pitch to a nice round 20 m, I'd agree with that.
This is totally academic for me, of course, as I've never been interested in
cricket. After a certain year in high school, we could choose between
cricket and tennis. I chose the latter.
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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