This reminded me of an old story: My friend in high school (about 30 years ago now) asked his mom to get him a metric crescent wrench for his birthday, she went crazy looking for one and of course never found it. She got quite a laughed when we told her that there was no such thing. --
"Go for a Metric America" Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372 >>> On 6/26/2009 at 10:04 PM, in message <[email protected]>, Bill Hooper <[email protected]> wrote: > I was browsing in the auto shop while my car was being serviced the > other day and came across something I always "knew" in the abstract > but, about which, I did not know the specific details. Maybe you all > knew this (or similar examples) but here it is in case you didn't. > > They were selling two almost identical sets of socket wrenches, one in > Ye Olde English units, the other in metric: > > The sizes of the sockets in the Y.O.E. set were: > 5/16, 3/8, 7/16, 1/2, 9/16, 5/8 and 3/4 inches. > > The sizes of the metric sockets were: > 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 17 millimetres. > > The Olde English units were marked on the sockets with quotation marks > to indicate inches (e.g. 5/16" for five-sixteenths of an inch) while > the metric units were indicated by "MM" for millimetres (e.g. 9 MM for > nine millimetres). The examples show so well how metric is simpler to > understand and easier to use, that one can almost excuse the use of > the wrong symbol for millimetres. > > > Bill Hooper > 72 kg body mass > Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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