Texas uses tenths, expressed as fractions, so it does at least correspond to odometer readings, even if it isn't pure decimal notation.
Mind you, I haven't been there for over three years, so it might have changed. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Carleton MacDonald >Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 19:28 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:34498] Re: Long live the good old British pint! > > >Or maybe too complicated for the American mind. 1/4, 1/2, 1 are all I seem >to see on roads. > >Carleton > >-----Original Message----- >From: Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 22:10 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; U.S. Metric Association >Subject: Re: [USMA:34496] Re: Long live the good old British pint! > >If they are truly gone, then that is why they are gone, because they made >sense. Nothing we do seems to follow any logical path. It is >designed that > >way so that the masses can be controlled by the few. Metric is >not desired > >for the masses because the masses would be enlightened by it. Thus keep >them in darkness by surrounding them with nothing that makes sense. > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, 2005-09-16 20:17 >Subject: [USMA:34496] Re: Long live the good old British pint! > > >> What I've always found weird is that odometers in cars are in decimal >> miles >> (001416.9), but road signs are in fractions (EXIT 1/2 MI). >> >> When I was a student at Berkeley I'd drive to Los Angeles on my >motorcycle >> every few months to visit family. Often I'd go down US 101 as >it was more >> interesting than I-5 through the San Joaquin Valley (though a >lot longer). >> On the Ventura Freeway in the San Fernando Valley, there were >some freeway >> exit list signs with decimal mile indications such as "Topanga Cyn Bl >> 0.7". >> I never saw those anywhere else, and I suspect they're gone now. > This was >> around 1969. It made sense to me as it matched what the odometer was >> saying. >> >> Carleton >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf >> Of Philip S Hall >> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 17:36 >> To: U.S. Metric Association >> Subject: [USMA:34483] Re: Long live the good old British pint! >> >>> That's ok then. >>> If all imperial terms are just metric terms in disguise you no longer >>> need >> >>> to try to get us to be metric, erm, "really" metric. Your job is done. >>> >>> All those miles on the road aren't really miles so what's the issue? >> >> The issue is that it fails to make proper use of that underlying >system of >> measurement and ignores the advantages it offers. Before metric >came along >> no one woud have calibrated odometers and map scales in lots of >1 3/5 mile >> would they? >> >> Phil Hall >> >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: >2005-09-16 >> >> > >
