The Metric System
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But our (metric) made up rules are cooler than yours.
like the The Avogadro Project
because a uncertainty of approximately 0.1 ppm is just to much.
like the The Avogadro Project
because a uncertainty of approximately 0.1 ppm is just to much.
This thread is getting furlongs long.
I cannot fathom what you mean.
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How many posts does it take to fill The Royal Albert Hall?
Are you measuring the posts in inches or centimeters ?
Royal Albert Hall measures 86,650 cu. meters in total auditorium volume.
If you want inches you have figure it out yourself because my tape measure is metric and they kicked me out because apparently crawling all over the floor and scribbling on the walls is against some ones rules.
Its not like it was a very good concert either.
If you want inches you have figure it out yourself because my tape measure is metric and they kicked me out because apparently crawling all over the floor and scribbling on the walls is against some ones rules.
Its not like it was a very good concert either.
I did that exact thing at work today. Big ol' drawing in metric. Every single micrometer, caliper, scale, indicator, tape, and left-handed smoke shifter in my tool box is standard. Out comes the calculator and pencil. I spent a solid two hours dividing by 25.4 to make the drawing right.
One of these day's I'll choke up the money to outfit myself with some metric tools. While I don't care for metric, I do care about conversion and rounding errors. Who here remembers how we lost a rather expensive Mars probe??
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Wolowitz was trying to impress a girl?
Can't wait to go to the corner and cop a kilo of bologna.
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I prefer binary.
There are only 10 kinds of people -- those who can think in binary, and those who can't.
There are only 10 kinds of people -- those who can think in binary, and those who can't.
I think I will start measuring things in knots.
It has been observed that children who speak languages whose orthography is simple -- viz you spell as it sounds -- learn to read much faster than children having to cope with a complex and irregular orthography. I wonder if there are any similar effects of having metric vs. imperial measurements?
For example, would I have been smarter I had had to struggle with inches, feet and yards as a child rather than simply moving the comma a couple of places?
For example, would I have been smarter I had had to struggle with inches, feet and yards as a child rather than simply moving the comma a couple of places?
