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Metric or Imperial
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:41:37 -0000
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Gareth Slee...
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After following a thread on another NG where the subject of Imperial and
Metric units came up, I thought I'd put together a quick and dirty web
poll thing.
Not very scientific I know, but it could be interesting.
Rabbit...
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Don't forget and come back with the results, you lurker you :-)
Gareth Slee...
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West Stand Bowler...
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No contest. Metric owns imperial for precision. I remember cursing
Ali...
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Really? 1/64 inch is more precise than millimetre.
Thousanth of an inch even more precise
Mothy...
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decimalisation when it was introduced, but 10 is much simpler to
pmj...
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Only in *some* ways!!!...
You can divide/stack a Dozen items (Eggs/Apples etc,) in more
different ways than you can 10!!!
2 x 6
3 x 4
as well as 1 x 12.
But with 10, you can only do it as:
2 x 5 (& 1 x 10)
Also, you can work stuff out in Dozens (or Fractions of Dozens),
by relating them to the Numbers round a Clock Face.
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work with than 12.
Ali...
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Not when dividing into thirds or quarters.
Mothy...
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Really, 1/1000 of a millimetre isn't precise?
Ali...
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Precise, but is it accurate?
Mothy...
About as precise as 40 millionths of an inch.
The claim was that metric was more precise than imperial.
I say they are equally precise when using a micrometer, but the graduations
on a ruler are more precise. I've seen rulers marked in sixty-fourths of an
inch, but the best I've seen in metric is millimetres.
Mothy...
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Precisely! You set your standard and then create your measuring device.
Now, I would argue about the accuracy of any ruler metric or imperial
and I would doubt a ruler measuring 1/64 of inch to be of much practical
use given the limitations reading off and marking the ruler up.
Still my point was your point any measuring standard is accurate as the
measuring device you use. So to say one standard is more accurate than
another has no meaning.
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andon...
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Yeh but 12 was a bob and you could get a fair bit for a bob.
What can you get for 10 of the decibel jobs?
Rabbit...
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On 14th February 1971(IIRC) I was be able to visit the Ladies 240 times for
a pound on the 15th February only go 100 times :-(
Ali...
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1) That's a lot. Did you have some sort of infection? :^)
2) Really? Many local authorities decided it wasn't worth converting the
coin mechanism, and made them free.
3) If so, it was the first price rise in 120 years. (First coin-op loos were
at the Great Exhibition 1851.)
Jackie...
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They charge 20p in the `Ladies` on Eastbourne seafront - and a turnstile so
only one at a time can get in!!!
disgraceful I think!!!
Peirrepoint...
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Jackie,
Must confess, us blokes get it cheap most places :-) But remember last time
we took kids to London. Arrived at Euston and made sure they all used the
loo before we went anywhere. All 3 lads either jumped or ducked under the
turnstile :o) Needless to say, I pretended they weren't with me lol
jackie...
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They even have an attendant to watch you come in!!! not good for the
elderlies!!
especially the large ladies.
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andon...
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Lucky you don't live here then because although you would have saved
a fair bit, the hedge might have suffered.
Rabbit...
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It wouldn't have been the first hedge ;-)
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