Posted on 10/24/2017 6:00:25 PM PDT by cotton1706
The pieces-of-eight coins could actually be separated into eight wedges.
Maybe the UK will go back to British Standard Whitworth (BSW) on their bolts and nuts. They were cursed by anyone who ever took a wrench to a British car built prior to the late sixties.
The pieces-of-eight coins could actually be separated into eight wedges.
That’s my point.
Ten hour days, ten day weeks. Nothing in nature runs on the tens system.
But what can you expect. They killed off or drove out all the people with brains.
Peter Van Meter was Pierre Metric’s lover or converted to avoirdupois, his ‘partner.’ Of course, that had to be kept secret in France, and was only recently discovered.
The English system is deplorable! Would you rather divide 77.5 by three? Or is it easier to divide 1.9685m by 3?
#4 Is the cost in shillings and pounds?
#50 You just didn’t measure up. You came up short plus you must have been left handed.... : )
I still will use my furlongs and rods and chains and stone and cubits and League.
You were probably just inching along, and you’re teacher did not appreciate it...
Music tones themselves are a study. Western music arose as a system of octaves, fifths, thirds, and other intervals which were eventually rationalized into twelve tone units of which multiples constitute approximate, not exact, replicas of the original system (except octaves remain exact in theory, though even not yet in practice on the piano where they are widened slightly). It works well enough that most casual listeners don’t notice the inaccuracies. The inaccuracies are spread out over the scale.
And then there are fraction-tones, such as what the music of India commonly uses. And on the piano in a jazz idiom those notes are sometimes approximated by playing the notes on either side of the funky note that is desired.
They still kept 12 months, but called them different things.
Metric sucked at the gas pump. Being accustomed to price changes of, say, one cent per imperial gallon, it didn’t seem too bad when increases to the price of a liter were also one cent. Problem was, the liter price in gallons wasn’t one cent but more like four. Gas stations loved it.
This was discussed on FR a few months ago and I can’t find the post but a Freeper laid out the math that showed why Imperial measures were superior to the metric system when it comes to practical issues such as commerce etc..
It’s about the number of ways to reduce larger numbers by 2 AND 3.
There would be no reason why we couldn’t have had dollar coins that became 10 wedges (to get it down to the level of the dime).
Spark plug.
Dividing by 3 would get you pesky fractions in a metric world. But 1/3 inch and 1/3 pound are also going to need approximations.
As much as I concede that the metric system makes sense, I still count off footsteps with my feet to measure rooms, land etc. Accurate enough for me, and easy to remember that a foot is my footstep. Don’t know what it is in centimeters.
If those wedges are as even as the wedges I get whenever I cut a pizza--then there would have been nothing standard about them at all.
For ease of calculation, I prefer the metric system. It's so much easier than trying to figure out something like what is the volume in ounces of a glass that is 5" high by 3" wide, tapering down to 2.5" wide at the bottom, using the measurements. What is the conversion of cubic inches to ounces?
Same with my old 1960s Datsun vehicle. I have to keep both sets of tools handy, nuts and bolts are a mix of metric and English.
But, how many gallons in a hogshead?
Yeh, and base 12 is sooo much more convenient, like in surveying where a foot, 12-inches is broken down into 10ths of a foot. Real convenient!
Having grown up into adulthood using the Imperial system and working overseas in the mining industry, the metric system is far easier to use and makes much more sense.
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