On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Kirk Wallace<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:42 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: > ... snip >> I am a imperial guy who is annoyed with the metric system. I have worked >> in metric a lot but still don't know what a meter looks like except that >> it close to a yard. To me a MM is .039 approx and a little bigger than >> 1/32 of an inch. Centimeters? Forget about that! Machine shop work >> here in the states has all been in mm so what the heck is 764 mm, 1200 >> mm what the heck is the rime or reason to that. I guess that was >> intended to make it easy for us dumb machinist that aren't capable of >> using centimeters, so now we unwashed ones don't even know what a >> centimeter is :'( >> Doug
Funny thing is that people here (US) are using the metric system slightly different than for example in Germany. I am referring to the way units are used. 1200mm would be most likely 1.2 m. And so on. People here say 10ft and not 120 inches. Same thing. Metric is simply about the decimal point. 1200mm is or 120 cm or 12 dm or 1.2 meter . But I have not met anyone actually using decimeter... in casual length measurement. The electro magentic wave surfer dude's use it. So once you know what milli, denti, deci and kilo means... you mastered the metric system. It just another way of saying thousand, hundred, ten and so on. I use .04 as 'finger gap' indicator and mental help. AS well as 1 yard is one meter. and 1 Kilometer is half a mile. All terribly off but good enough for a visual. The liquid ounces are worse lol.... Gallons and pints and quarts and ounces.... In the metric system it's just a continuation of the scheme. Just with liter instead of meter. The near fatal US imperial question of haw many cubic inches are in half a gallon is comparably simply answered in the metric system as one unit system is identical to the other, just with one more dimension. Once inches per furlong.... cubic or squared? Maybe fries with that! Now I have a headache..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
