The reporter said the bus weighed 90,000 pounds...could that be right?Jack
a woman was arrested in gb for selling fruit by the bowl refusing 2 use metric system
is it just me or is the clearance sign in feet and inches. seems odd that it is not metric.
90 000 pounds sterling is equivalent to US$131 000 give or take as of this morning on the internet.I'm thinking that number is still way off?
I don't think I've ever seen those sizes for plywood, normal would be 4ftx8ft, 6x4 sure would be hard to figure from a construction standpoint especially for any floor or roof that is on 16 inch centers.
and I buy plywood in 8' x 4' sheets. In each of those cases those are not the official measurements, and in some cases I would actually mix the measurements myself - for instance once I bought my 8' x 4' sheet of plywood (actually a 2440mm x 1220mm sheet) I would then mark it out and cut it up in centimeters and millimeters. Jeremy
Jeremy may have edited that as cody was typing...?happy coaching!buswarrior
I did hear that an exemption (Europe wide I think) was granted just last year to allow manufacturers selling to the US to go back to refering to their products using imperial measurements - I guess after 40 years they finally got bored of waiting for you guys to catch up with the rest of the world.....
It completely boggles my mind that some engineers still have to do high precision work in fractions of an inch rather than the millimeters which make so much more sense.
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But DOES it make more sense? Think about it a little. In each case, the measurement is completely arbitrary, but in the case of metric, it ONLY divides by 10. In the English system, we can evenly divide by pretty much any fraction we like. Quick, cut something 5/8 of a centimeter long, with only a ruler to measure it by! We can (and do) also divide inches into decimal, down to .0001 inch divisions.Inches are more efficient than centimeters when you are measuring larger items, which is why so many common metric sizes are given a codified standard, instead of being referred to by measurement (such as "A4" copy paper).Each system has advantages, but neither is the end-all, perfect system.
That's interesting - as someone who grew up in the metric era and have never been 'taught' how to use imperial I always assumed the whole point of metric was that it only divided by 10, so was fundamentally simpler than imperial where you have a number of discrete units that operate on different bases and need different conversion factors to move between them.
Basing everything on 10 makes it mathematically and logically very easy to transpose between different units depending on the size of the thing you are measuring - and you can also move between weights, volumes and distances very easily
(ie. 1 litre of water weighs 1kg etc). I suppose there are times when you would need to cut something 5/8 of a centimetre long, but normally 'you wouldn't start from there'.
I'm not sure about the size of 'A4' copy paper being originally anything to do with inches - in fact nowhere between A0 paper and A10 paper do both dimensions give a round number when measured in inches. I haven't worked out the areas though so possibily it is something to do with that.
The English system is easier to work with than I found English money to be, back in the 1970s -- but then, OUR money has always been DECIMAL!
Metric is more logical, and harder to use by the average person.
Why would you want to do this? Weight is weight, it isn't length.
Again, that's arbitrary. You and your buddy have just bought a centimeter of silver wire, and he paid 5/8 of the price. See, you might have to start from there.
In addition, the sized of the base measurements make more sense from an ergonomic standpoint. A gallon of milk, a foot of tape, a yard of ribbon, a pound of wheat, a ball one inch across, a cup of sugar, a mile to go, a ton of sand. In each case, these are CONCEPTUALLY simple to work with. They're "the size you use," and the metric system has had to adopt a number of these sizes simply because they fit. Your computer keyboard and keys aren't metric.
Actually, the standard letter size is 8-1/2" x 11" -- Legal size is the same width but 3 inches longer (the extra length was for notes below the main part of the page). Ledger size is the same height but twice as wide (fits the desk or lap, but goes twice as far in the direction that you're writing to give more columns).
Please be assured that I'm not trying to be argumentative with any of the above;