Looks a lot like hidden metric
220 yards = 200 m
5.5 yards = 5 m
11 yards = 10 m
These can all be easily measured accurately using standard metric
instruments.
Dan
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From: "Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 2005-09-14 20:07
Subject: [USMA:34463] Gatha, Acre & fathom RE: FW: First milli-inch, now
decifoot.
John, Remek Kocz & friends:
Here is a new input abount India's 'Guz' & Acre, which I learn last week
visiting Panjab fields & meeting Patwaris calculating 'land areas'.
ONE acre is a plot of land of 40x40 gatha =4840 sq.yads =4046.825 sq.
metre (easy rounding to 4000 m). India has been using Kanal =500 m. 40
gatha distance is ONE furlong (220 yds).
This imply that ONE 'gatha length is: Gatha =5.5 yds =1.6764 m'.
Did any member on the list hear of this unit *Gatha =5.5 yads* and its
history, if any?
I link this to British FATHOM as: 1 fathom = 2 gatha = 11 yds and TWICE
this is the length of popular game CRICKET - distance between the wickets,
which I advocated to be STANDRDISED to 20 m distance.
Recall my several posts last year. USE of deciFOOT does not make it belong
to 'metric system', which shall only create more confusion: 'even if
opponants of metric reform wish to retain yards & feet' in an attempt to
defeat metrication.
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From: "John Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:34425] FW: First milli-inch, now decifoot.
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:35:04 -0500
it is used for heights in road set out. Hard to level in inches, I know we
do it here and I hate it.
John M. Nichols
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Remek Kocz
Sent: Friday, 9 September 2005 6:18 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:34391] First milli-inch, now decifoot.
While looking around for a measuring tape at the hardware store, I noticed
that some tapes have feet subdivided into units of ten. Every foot on
such
a measure is marked off in thenths, and labeled in decimals. If I recall
correctly, each tenth is subsequently subdivided into thenths as well, so
it's feasible to measure out things as 2.37 feet without a problem. Does
anyone know what applications call for a decimalized foot?
It's ironic, but for a system of measures that is so organic and natural,
USC has such a peculiar tendency to "go metric."
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