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| mklotz:
Why introduce such complexity when they could have used the patently obvious 2 & 46/127 ? |
| trevoratxtal:
Has anyone realized that the standard imperial system is binary and can be represented directly in ones and zeros. the metric system cannot and has an inherent error try to give a third of one in decimal. :doh: :doh: 1/2, 1/4, 1/16,1/32,1/64,1/128. or any part thereof, is binary. :lol: :lol: The world screwed up when it opted for Decimal, Octal would have been better. Trev |
| Raggle:
Ah, yes, the heady days in junior school (UK) adding up columns of pounds shillings and pence, Yards, feet and inches, Tons, hundredweights, stones, pounds and ounces, all with a vulgar fraction column if appropriate. Get beyond school and your employer would have one or more of these http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/comptometer.html somewhere working out your wages (or you may be the operator of it, as my first wife was) Even copying down your homework question from the blackboard was a herculean task and prone to error. Marv rightly refers to this as the inferial system. Quite why the US grimly hangs on to it for linear measurement is a mystery. But then, we thought it was normal in those days. Anyway, enough of my rambling, I must continue my search for that old school wooden rule marked in 11ths. Ray |
| Jonny:
Some industries still work in imperial in UK. Having worked in it i used to convert over to metric unless thous up to 1" What gaffer didnt know, couldnt complain about. I remember the old 50 bob note, threpenny bit etc and did pounds shilling and d at school. Aluminium is still made and sold in imperial, thought that was pushing it 28 years ago. I get dimensions from customers in US, i always convert to metric though theres an ever increasing amount that are changing to metric. |
| mattinker:
We learnt all sorts of useful tables of measurement, from the back of the notebooks we had, 10 chains in a a furlong, 8 furlongs one mile. A furlong being a a furrow-long, the distance that Oxen could plough without stopping for breath! I've never bothered to work out what a metric furlong is, I've only lived in France for thirty three years and I haven't needed it yet! |
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