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.


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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousWednesday, April 18, 2012 12:54:00 PM

    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 _.

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  2. MonkeyheadWednesday, April 18, 2012 1:02:00 PM

    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...

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  3. (x, why?)Wednesday, April 18, 2012 2:00:00 PM

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

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  4. AnonymousFriday, April 20, 2012 4:17:00 PM

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

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  5. (x, why?)Friday, April 20, 2012 6:27:00 PM

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

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