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| PTsideshow:
Plus you can't fight the catalogs and companies that use the word scale on their packaging. Besides it said so on the inter net, and they can't lie on the inter net!! :bugeye: :jaw: :lol: |
| Will_D:
And in rugby union "rules" are called "laws" |
| vtsteam:
To rule is to draw. To scale is to measure. You rule lines and you scale distances. A rule is technically a straightedge and does not have to measure. A scale is a means of comparison. You scale by comparison. You compare a figure on paper with markings on a scale to measure it. A scale rule is a straihtedge that can also be used to measure or scale with. In technical trades it is still sometimes called a scale rule, but in common speech the scale part was dropped, and now it is just a rule or commonly here in elementary schools, a ruler. |
| bp:
When I was a draftsman a scale was a fairly expensive (for what it was) bit of plastic with measurements marked on each of the four edges. The measurements were all different, from memory they could be, for instance, 1:1, 1:5. 1:20, and 1:50. So if a drawing to a reduced scale was being drawn it was important to use the right part of your scale rule. However if a "full size" drawing was being worked on either the 1:1 scale could be used (on your scale rule), or a steel rule, with, if you like, conventional markings (mm, inches in 1/10 or 1/32 etc) could be used. The steel rule could also be used for other things, like measuring bits of metal, flicking wads of paper at people, and things like that. However, I seldom used a scale rule, or a steel rule for actually drawing a line. That's what squares, and straight edges and stuff like that was for. A rule, either "scale" or "steel" was used only for measuring thing on a pre drawn line from point "A" to point "B". Yes I have been called pedantic! Of course these days any concepts like drawing something at 1:50 scale has been rendered obsolete by CAD. I still have a collection of scale rules somewhere, unused for the last 25 years, along with some drawing instruments. If anyone's interested in buying them drop me a PM! cheers Bill |
| SwarfnStuff:
So what is the thing the boss measures her flour / sugar on. Here in Oz they are Kitchen scales but guess they could be balances except nowadays very few actually balance the flour against the required mass in the other pan. They are usually some form of spring balance (Old) or use load cells. |
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