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From: T i m on 17 Mar 2010 08:08 On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:43:44 +0000, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> Like joint projects tween Uk and US and one group working in Imperial >> ... ;-( > >The most notorious example of that (crash into Mars, anyone?) was >between two groups within NASA. The Brits are pretty good at using >proper measurements now. It's only the Yanks who seem attached to their >peculiar version of Imperial. You can (well I can) trill trip yourself up within the metric stuff. I was trying to help laddo online make a computer desk out of an old wooden table and asked if fitting the 25cm thick worktop to a 75cm high table would make it too tall? He came back confirming this solution would be 1m high (bless him, he didn't want to point out my error). Of course the worktop was 25 *mm* thick and that I guess is the price for not working in std units (I thought you weren't supposed to use cm or something, just mm, m , km etc?). Cheers, T i m
From: Howard on 17 Mar 2010 10:00 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > > [snip] > > > It's not like when CDs came out first and we were all told that only the > > top 100 would make it to Cd > > Who made that claim? I never heard it, and it's obvious cobblers - This was all the talk when CDs came out first. > although low-selling oddities were obviously not going to make it to CD > any time soon, if at all. I don't buy this at all. > > > and if we wanted our more unusual LPs then > > we needed to do the conversion. You can get almost ANY LP on CD now. > > I've got /loads/ of LPs unavailable on CD. Thankfully, most of them are > not of musical aesthetic interest to me You may well do. But that doesn;'t change the fact that the vast majority are available on CD, even very very obscure ones. I've been through that search and only ended up with one or two unmatched. H
From: J. J. Lodder on 17 Mar 2010 17:27 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:43:44 +0000, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter > Ceresole) wrote: > > >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > > > >> Like joint projects tween Uk and US and one group working in Imperial > >> ... ;-( > > > >The most notorious example of that (crash into Mars, anyone?) was > >between two groups within NASA. The Brits are pretty good at using > >proper measurements now. It's only the Yanks who seem attached to their > >peculiar version of Imperial. > > You can (well I can) trill trip yourself up within the metric stuff. > > I was trying to help laddo online make a computer desk out of an old > wooden table and asked if fitting the 25cm thick worktop to a 75cm > high table would make it too tall? > > He came back confirming this solution would be 1m high (bless him, he > didn't want to point out my error). > > Of course the worktop was 25 *mm* thick and that I guess is the price > for not working in std units (I thought you weren't supposed to use cm > or something, just mm, m , km etc?). For scientific publication, yes. In everyday life in the long ago metricised countries some of the the intermediate units cm, dm, cl, etc are still in common use. Furniture dimensions for example are usually given in cm. There is no obvious pattern to which is or isn't used, Jan
From: T i m on 17 Mar 2010 17:46 On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:32 +0100, nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) wrote: >> Of course the worktop was 25 *mm* thick and that I guess is the price >> for not working in std units (I thought you weren't supposed to use cm >> or something, just mm, m , km etc?). > >For scientific publication, yes. Ah. I thought I remembered something like that (ta). >In everyday life in the long ago metricised countries >some of the the intermediate units cm, dm, cl, etc >are still in common use. Ok. >Furniture dimensions for example are usually given in cm. Yeah, as was the Tefal frying pan we bought yesterday. ;-) > >There is no obvious pattern to which is or isn't used, > I still think in inches but can generally get close in cm or mm if I feel it would be better to use metric (if I'm going to pass the figures on rather than use them just myself). Cheers, T i m p.s. I collected an 'Office Desk' on behalf of daughter yesterday and I asked for some dimensions. Apparently she didn't have a tape but just kept saying "It's a std office sized desk". Maybe I didn't realise 'Office Desk' was a new std measure, along with busses, football pitches and Wales. ;-)
From: J. J. Lodder on 18 Mar 2010 04:51
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:32 +0100, nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. > Lodder) wrote: > > > >> Of course the worktop was 25 *mm* thick and that I guess is the price > >> for not working in std units (I thought you weren't supposed to use cm > >> or something, just mm, m , km etc?). > > > >For scientific publication, yes. > > Ah. I thought I remembered something like that (ta). > > >In everyday life in the long ago metricised countries > >some of the the intermediate units cm, dm, cl, etc > >are still in common use. > > Ok. > > >Furniture dimensions for example are usually given in cm. > > Yeah, as was the Tefal frying pan we bought yesterday. ;-) > > > >There is no obvious pattern to which is or isn't used, > > > I still think in inches but can generally get close in cm or mm if I > feel it would be better to use metric (if I'm going to pass the > figures on rather than use them just myself). The only place I know of where the original prefixes are still used is in notarial writings. You may buy a house built on: one hectare, three deca-are, five are, two deciare, one centiare, all written out in full to make tampering impossible. But even there kilo-ares are not used. (The original metric system had an independent area unit, the are, equal to 100 m^2) Jan |