Re: NEC-LIST: Imperial metrics in the UK

Dear People,

To bring the discussion back, a little bit, onto
topic, I think the great advantage of SI
(Systeme Internationale) Units is that nearly
everything is decimally related; thus we don't
have sillinesses like 12 inches to the foot,
3 feet to the yard, or the one I don't understand,
why a US pint is actually 16.667 fl.oz instead of
being a round pound in weight of water.

That makes calculations very much more straightforward.
Think about it, 1000 ml = 1 litre, 1000 litres =
1 cubic metre etc etc. instead of pints, quarts, gallons,
barrels, hogsheads, and the like.

Of course, only a few diehards work to a decimal
clock, although relatedly, there was once a unit called the
grad on HP calculators where there were 100 divisions
in a quadrant.

To persuade all antenna software model programme
writers to abandon feet and inches would be a major
step forward, IMHO.

Cheers as they say down under

David.

"Dr. Edward P. Sayre" wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
> Actually, in Europe and other non-US ( and perhaps UK) places, they like to
> refer to auto fuel use in liters/kilometer. Less is often conceptually better!
>
> ed sayre
> ==================
> At 09:54 AM 3/3/2003 -0800, Dan Bathker wrote:
> >Nearly all thirsty adults worldwide understand "pints"
> >and some underage people too
> >the Brits had a lot to do with that.........
> >
> >At 08:18 PM 3/1/2003 +0000, David Jefferies wrote:
> > >Dear List,
> > >
> > >In response to Jim Lux, my son is 11 and claims
> > >"not to understand feet, inches, pounds, stones"
> > >although he does understand pints as that is what
> > >his consumption of milk, about 24 a week, comes in, but then,
> > >they are Imperial pints which are 20 fl.oz. against the
> > >US pint which is only 16. (Don't compare miles per
> > >gallon!)
> >SNIP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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