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Re: The metric-system

Metric works, dead easy to follow & makes sense.
I am 39yr old electrician, when I went to school I was taught in metric.
My wife, bit younger, & taught in metric.
Then you go to work & people start muttering about "stones, inches, feet, foot, yard????"
We even get 20yr olds an younger quoting these wierd old measurements, whats all that about?
Newspapers and the media quote things in imperial, what a bunch of arse!
Get bloody metric uk dinosaur country
Measure that to 3 16ths of an inch, huh??
Rant over, but it fecks me right off, bunch of arse.

Re: The metric-system

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Originally Posted by MartinLuther (Post 7689214)

I use which ever is appropriate. I'm size 14 UK and Aus, size 15 US and 49 European. I'd be happy if the whole world went European.

I have an old canoe handy if you are missing a shoe.

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Originally Posted by jasonlec (Post 7689241)

I was brought up with both. I started off my education in England where I was taught feet, inches, stones, miles. Then I moved to France where it became metres, centimetres, kilograms and kilometres. I can use both quite easily and I can understand why some people still prefer to use the old imperial system for some measurements. Sometimes the metric system is just too out of scope to use effectively. Ie: it is far easier to say "it is about a foot long" rather than "it is about 33cm long" (I am forever doing this in bars when talking to women). However, I would never use yards to describe something as I find it simpler to use metres. Equally, I think when measuring weight of human beings it is easier to talk stones rather than kilos, but if I am measuring weight of goods it is easier to measure in kilos.

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Originally Posted by EvannTel (Post 7688296)

Interesting, not once heard of a baby weight here given in lbs and oz once, always grams. Regional difference maybe?

Weight should always be given in Newtons. Kilograms/grams are the unit of mass, not weight. I used to hate teaching this. Kids could never understand the difference.

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Originally Posted by EvannTel (Post 7688296)

Would that be the same Lord Kelvin of the Kelvin temperature scale? Which is in fact the SI unit for temperature - not celsius?
So today we can expect a high of 291K!
Not that would make the weather much more fun!

Luckily the Kelvin scale uses the same increments as the Celcius scale, so an increase in temperature of 20 C is the same as an increase of 20 K. They just have different points of reference. Thankfully, it's rare that we need to be concerned with measuring too much at absolute zero.

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Originally Posted by Swerv-o (Post 7689556)

Weight should always be given in Newtons. Kilograms/grams are the unit of mass, not weight. I used to hate teaching this. Kids could never understand the difference.

Luckily the Kelvin scale uses the same increments as the Celcius scale, so an increase in temperature of 20 C is the same as an increase of 20 K. They just have different points of reference. Thankfully, it's rare that we need to be concerned with measuring too much at absolute zero.

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do my homework and I won't beat you up

Re: The metric-system

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Originally Posted by Broad Shoulders (Post 7689558)

do my homework and I won't beat you up

Jeez - You've already had my lunch money...

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