On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:13, Brij Bhushan Vij wrote:
> Just try to forget the *Yard, food* etc. AND remember:
> 11 yards = 10 metre;
Front or back yards?
> A furlong = 200 m;
A what? The only association I have with furlongs is furlongs per fortnight.
And don't start talking about rods and perches and lines unless you tell me
what the bait is.
> 5 miles = 8 kilometre; and
54 nautical miles = 100 km is more useful. As long as degrees of angle are
divided by 60, the nautical mile will be used long after the statute mile is
forgotten.
> the distance between wickets on a CRICKET field is 20 metre.
Make that a grasshopper field. Cricket is too batty for me.
My earliest metric association was the width of a Lego block, which is 8 mm.
The height is 9.6, but I didn't know that until a few days ago - it wasn't a
round number of millimeters, so I didn't remember. One meter is the width of
one of those shelf modules that my mother has on her wall. When we assembled
it the instructions were in inches, not realizing that my father was French
and grew up with meters.
phma
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