On 2003 Sep 03 Wednesday 05:44, Terry Simpson wrote: > Bill Potts wrote: > > It's a rigid wooden ruler, one meter in length. > > That is what I thought. I know the expression 'yardstick' but I did not > think of it as referring to an artefact that anybody used today. > > I have never seen a meter or yard stick. I can't imagine that anyone I know > has one. Does anybody here have a yard or meter stick? What are the > circumstances where it is used?
At the time we went metric at school, we had metre sticks in our classrooms. Never saw a yardstick. I'm not sure what their main use would be. I seem to recollect them being used for crude measures of mercury heights and other lab experiments. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Association www.metric.org.uk
