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#1

So the metric-users weren't satisfied with the first 4 attempts :wink:

       Wow, the old-English-system has stood the test of time better :wink:

       BTW - when there's a queen rather than a king, whose body parts are
used :wink:

       from the peanut-gallery's goofy section,

AFAIK, the inch is the English equivalent of the old continents

#2

There is a female body part unit system.

They tend to call it cup A,B,C,... :stuck_out_tongue:
So next time you offer coffee or tea, you should not ask whether they
want a capuccino or expresso, but use the cup-sizes :smiley:

Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards,

DRIES FEYS
CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
I think we just dig up Henry I don't we?

Initially i thought it odd that the US would use a system that no-one else still uses and call it "the English system" when "the English" are now all metric and the US are so proud of their independence!  However i then "half inched" my neighbours milk but honest guv i will walk the hundred yards to the newsagents later to buy a pint to repay him.

Hmmm, suddenly realised we use both systems. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

I think we Americans are a little stubborn along with our independence. Back in the 1960's there was an effort to change to metric, but about the only visible change was that on the highways the signs gave the distance to the next town in kilometers as well as in miles. (Our tax dollars at work!)

Metric just never caught on here in the USA. And I noticed that as the signs were replaced, the news ones just gave the distance in miles again.

Oh, and our cars still do show the speed in both miles per hour and kilometers per hour - but I think that is probably just in case we happen to visit Canada (who has gone metric, I think) :slight_smile:
Ruth Ann, Cincinnati, OH USA

#5

Ruth Ann wrote:

Metric just never caught on here in the USA. And I noticed that as the
signs were replaced, the news ones just gave the distance in miles again.

You can thank Reagan for that one. Peanut Carter had implemented a plan
to convert, but Reagan killed it. This was the same period as when
Canada switched.

Oh, and our cars still do show the speed in both miles per hour and
kilometers per hour - but I think that is probably just in case we
happen to visit Canada (who has gone metric, I think) :slight_smile:

Both Canada and Mexico along with every other country an American can
drive to, uses Km. The U.S. is stuck with 2 third world countries as
the last holdouts. How does it feel to have the U.S. on par with
Liberia and Myanmar (Burma).

Regardless, thanks to world trade, more and more U.S. companies are
having to work with the metric system, if they want to sell elsewhere.

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
I think our cars show both too.  I think road signs only show miles.  Errr, i am a cyclist so any distance away just seems forever away until i reach it.  60 miles might take just a few hours one day but then an 8mile might be unfeasible another.  Bit of an exaggeration of course.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Units and their system is a question of what you are used to and for what you developed a feel.

The metric system has it is advantage in the factors of 10 or 1/10. I consider this as the reason why most countries adopted the metric system.

If a country is serious about a change, than all measures must be provided for a while in both units and after while the old units must disappear.

Is there a chance that all countries go metric? It depends on the pride to use a different one with all disadvantages link to it.

#8

I did not believe that the US, Liberia and Myanmar are the only
    countries. But they are indeed the only ones left.http://gizmodo.com/5786004/these-are-the-three-countries-who-dont-use-the-metric-systemThus, which country will change next? Myanmar, as they open the
    country for investments?The last two can use a coin to find out which country changes
    next or, which one remains the last non-metric country.... I hope to
    get old enough to see which country is the last one being
    non-metric... National pride!On 28.08.2013 03:08, James Knott wrote:
Ruth Ann wrote:Metric just never caught on here in the USA. And I noticed that as the
signs were replaced, the news ones just gave the distance in miles again.You can thank Reagan for that one. Peanut Carter had implemented a plan
to convert, but Reagan killed it. This was the same period as when
Canada switched.Oh, and our cars still do show the speed in both miles per hour and
kilometers per hour - but I think that is probably just in case we
happen to visit Canada (who has gone metric, I think) :-)Both Canada and Mexico along with every other country an American can
drive to, uses Km. The U.S. is stuck with 2 third world countries as
the last holdouts. How does it feel to have the U.S. on par with
Liberia and Myanmar (Burma).

Regardless, thanks to world trade, more and more U.S. companies are
having to work with the metric system, if they want to sell elsewhere.

#9

rost52 wrote:

The metric system has it is advantage in the factors of 10 or 1/10. I
consider this as the reason why most countries adopted the metric system.

It was also designed as a logical system, tied to defined physical
constants. I recently watched a video about how the new standard for a
kilogram was the number of atoms in a precisely measured silicon
sphere. The kilometre was originally defined in relation to the
distance from the equator to the poles, but is currently determined by
the wavelength of light emitted by the kryton-86 items. This shows the
metric system is defined in terms of physical constants and not some
unmeasurable item such as the length of a long dead king's arm.

If a country is serious about a change, than all measures must be
provided for a while in both units and after while the old units must
disappear.

In Canada, when Km and °C came in, there was a switch over date, the
road sides had stickers placed over the old speed limit in miles to show
in Km. Weather reporting swithed to Celcius. As for physical things,
there was a date given, where dimensions had to be specified in metric,
but this applied to things made after that date and older items could
still be sold. However, manufacturers switched production well before
that date. The switch over was also phased in, so only one thing
changed at a time.

#10

Hi :slight_smile:
Even though this thread went waaaay off-topic it's ended up being very relevant to a problem many of us have.  How to migrate.

Given that most people want to stay with MS systems we are a bit stuck in the phase of having to deal with both systems at the same time.  Even when the ODF format does become dominant there will probably be a few people still using the ever-changing proprietary format that could disappear any-time at the whim of a single company.

It's interesting to hear that Km changed it's base without changing it's size (or may have changed length just a tiny bit that most of us wouldn't have noticed).  I quite like the idea of re-measuring a long dead king's arm as it slowly crumbles away but that might be a bit dark for most people!  Probably better to just quaff a few ales in the Queens Arms instead.  Not sure why so many pubs are called the Queens Arms.

Regards from

Tom :slight_smile:

#11

Sorry, but for the avoidance of confusion, you are thirty years out of date. Since 1983, the metre has been defined as the distance travelled by light _in vacuo_ in a specified time. This has the effect of *defining* the value of the speed of light, of course.

Brian Barker

#12

Brian Barker wrote:

The kilometre [...] is currently determined by the wavelength of
light emitted by the kry[p]ton-86 items.

Sorry, but for the avoidance of confusion, you are thirty years out of
date. Since 1983, the metre has been defined as the distance
travelled by light _in vacuo_ in a specified time. This has the
effect of *defining* the value of the speed of light, of course.

It's still tied to a physical constant. Now, what's the speed of dark? :wink:

#13

Hi :) 
It 'must' be faster than light because everywhere light reaches darkness has already been
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#14

Hi :slight_smile:
base-12 is good because it's easy to divide by so many different numbers and still get to a whole number.  It's a tad difficult to count on my fingers as i am not as blessed as Henry VIII's wife, Ann Boleyn.  It's kinda odd that we all settle for using base-2 or base-16 without even noticing it.

is it time to roll out the old joke of
"There are only 10 types of people in the world.  Those that think in binary and those that don't (errr, and some that are indeterminate)"

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: