"slugbug" wrote in message
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The UK uses Celcius not Fahrenheit.

I understand that. Unfortunately, you Britons foisted Miles and
Fahrenheit on us back when we were getting started, and we've been
stuck with them ever since. Now if we ever switched over, it would be
a catastrophe! Just think:

1) We would have to throw out all of our mercury thermometers, creating
an environmental armageddon

2) All of the roads in Ohio and the majority of states are marked off
in 1 mile squares. This means you come to an intersection of another
road each mile down the road, which lets you figure how far you have
driven with no problems. Think of all the math we'd have to use if we
switched to kilometers! (what is that, something like 1.4 km x however
many roads we've passed...)

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Dollars are Metric, ergo American money is in Metric

Just about every country in the world uses Metric, Canada went
Celsius/Metric in the 1970s, here is a fabulous URL on the topic, check out
the graph:

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm

When exporting to Metric countries, products from the USA are commonly
produced with metric figures.

Universities, labs, medical, engineering, architecture, many other
professions/advanced education in the USA are increasingly Metric.

One significant obstacle to the USA going metric is the general public, many
who don't appreciate the value of Metrication.

Cost savings galore, tho calculator sales will diminish, since much of
Metric is easy to do in the head, very simple.

Here is another URL for you, this one's about Metric 'n stuff:

http://www.fordhamprep.com/gcurran/s...s/lesson29.htm

As a teacher during the times of conversion up here - which is a process,
still going on, some just don't get it, it's a bit of a study - I found the
most effective way to get thinking in terms of Kilometres (some spell
Kilometers), was to go for a 1k walk. Soon you can eyeball a kilometre.

Shorter distances memorize 15 cm = 1 foot

It seems that if one ***has not*** memorized the number of feet and yards in
a mile, one will not come to understand Metric distances...

Everybody shd grow some grapes in containers!

bg
www.lchb.ca

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:35:45 GMT, "**bg**"
wrote:

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As a teacher during the times of conversion up here - which is a process,
still going on, some just don't get it, it's a bit of a study - I found the
most effective way to get thinking in terms of Kilometres (some spell
Kilometers), was to go for a 1k walk. Soon you can eyeball a kilometre.

Shorter distances memorize 15 cm = 1 foot

Jolly small feet over there!

It seems that if one ***has not*** memorized the number of feet and yards in
a mile, one will not come to understand Metric distances...

Everybody shd grow some grapes in containers!

bg
www.lchb.ca






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Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

Chris Hogg wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:35:45 GMT, "**bg**"
wrote:
Shorter distances memorize 15 cm = 1 foot

Jolly small feet over there!

You know!! He's given me a headache! Not only it took me 25 years to
learn that damn inch, oz, pint, foot and pound ... I'm so glad we're
going metric. Sorry for you folks but as bg said, and he's got a point,
you need to visualise it for sure. Studying horticulture has given it a
new angle - now we've got both measurement methods given, and that very
much confuses everybody (

Following up to "La Puce" :

now we've got both measurement methods given, and that very
much confuses everybody

Doesn't confuse me. I only have trouble nowadays with Fahrenheit.
--
Tim C.

The message
from Tim C. contains these words:

Following up to "La Puce" :

now we've got both measurement methods given, and that very
much confuses everybody

Doesn't confuse me. I only have trouble nowadays with Fahrenheit.

So do I at present - not enough of them.

--
Rusty
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk
Separator in search of a sig

Following up to Rusty Hinge 2 :

Doesn't confuse me. I only have trouble nowadays with Fahrenheit.

So do I at present - not enough of them


:-)
It was -17.7C here this morning. That's 0.14°F. Definitely too few.
--
Tim C.

The message BQGwf.169996$2k.135925@pd7tw1no
from "**bg**" contains these words:


Dollars are Metric, ergo American money is in Metric

Decimal, not metric. Decimal is a number base system, metric is a
measurement system.

As a teacher during the times of conversion up here - which is a process,
still going on, some just don't get it,

including you, it seems

Shorter distances memorize 15 cm = 1 foot

No, it doesn't. However many children have you misinformed ?

Janet.




Janet

Oops, too funny, typo

Shd read 30 cm to 1 foot

Have a nice day to all ngns

Keep yer toes tappin'

RjC
www.lchb.ca

On the subject, this might be interesting to some. A NASA Mars lander crashed a few years ago because one lab used imperial and another one used metric and they got the conversions wrong when they joined the data together.

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/99...ars.metric.02/

Darren

djhughes wrote:

On the subject, this might be interesting to some. A NASA Mars lander
crashed a few years ago because one lab used imperial and another one
used metric and they got the conversions wrong when they joined the
data together.

See!!! Confusing as I said. Now, I'm not learning rocket science but ...

"djhughes" wrote in message
...

**bg** Wrote:
Oops, too funny, typo

Shd read 30 cm to 1 foot

Have a nice day to all ngns

Keep yer toes tappin'

RjC
www.lchb.ca


On the subject, this might be interesting to some. A NASA Mars lander
crashed a few years ago because one lab used imperial and another one
used metric and they got the conversions wrong when they joined the
data together.

http://tinyurl.com/75fny

Darren
__________________________________

Hi D,

Yes, I remember that, what a disappointment.

Have often wondered if it was a single person's fault, what they're doing
now eh

RjC





--
djhughes

Following up to "**bg**" :

2) All of the roads in Ohio and the majority of states are marked off
in 1 mile squares.

You have bloody wide roads in Ohio.
--
Tim C.

"Tim C." wrote in message
...
Following up to "**bg**" :

2) All of the roads in Ohio and the majority of states are marked off
in 1 mile squares.

You have bloody wide roads in Ohio.
--
Tim C.

____________________________________________

Hey Tim, that's funny, good one!

RjC
www.lchb.ca

Following up to "**bg**" :

Unfortunately, you Britons foisted Miles and
Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit was German.

--
Tim C.