Tuesday, April 17, 2012

I-Hate-Metric Week, Day One

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Easy to convert? Sure. Little more than a yard. Little more than a quart. Little more than two pounds.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Back in my teaching days (industry not academics) I had a game that I would present my students. It went like 12 i in a f - which stands for 12 inches in a foot.

With the metric system it's kind of boring. Everything is 10 _ in a _.

Monkeyhead said...

Actually there are 10000 decigrams in a kilogram. And about the time: There have been efforts to implement decimal time with 10 hours a day, 100 minutes an hour and 100 seconds a minute.
Unfortunately this has never been very popular...

(x, why?) said...

Yes, that should have said "gram" not "kilogram". I'll fix that at some point.

Anonymous said...

Monkeyhead:
I want a watch that's like that.

(x, why?) said...

crazy week ... I should get around to fixing that and uploading... soon.