Anyone Dislike the Metric System?
May 26, 2019 01:39:28 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
Plywood has already become metric!!!
.22 caliber does not equate to decimal .22 cal can range from .218-.223 of an inch the same with all U.S. calibers.
.22 caliber does not equate to decimal .22 cal can range from .218-.223 of an inch the same with all U.S. calibers.
Its not yet the standard but its heading that way. Hence there would be a cascade of effect to the rest of the trade.
Any .XX or .XXX Caliber is a measurement in "decimal of inches" which is weird because the proper inch measurement increments are divided in halves (Fractions). Any variance is a different caliber or machining/mold accuracy error.
May 26, 2019 04:13:32 #
Hi again Chrissybabe, thanks for your interesting reply. We agree about it being best not to use mixed units. A young workmate asked me offhand "How many litres in a gallon?" and I replied "Somewhere just over 4.5 lt". Luckily as I passed by his desk I saw that he was in the middle of a spreadsheet so asked him what it was for. He was constructing a ready reckoner/checksheet conversion table to use on a daily basis on the factory floor. I was shocked to realise that he was quite happy to use my offhand 4.5lt rather than looking up a fuller 4.54609lt meaning that his results would be permanently over 1% short. Not a lot it seems but the factory processed many thousands of gallons per week.
May 26, 2019 05:22:50 #
Dikdik wrote:
Should have picked Chinese...
Dik
Dik
Funny thing, I have 60 or so students from China every semester. Their English is fair to good. Some are totally fluent. We get along quite well. We have the language of the picture in common.
May 26, 2019 06:08:41 #
Peterfiore wrote:
Without a doubt a HUGE pita. I live it as well.
May 26, 2019 11:21:38 #
Remember when a space vehicle of some kind didn't work because the engineers at one of the contractors did their stuff in metric and the other contractor did its parts in English units? When shipped for assembly, the parts did not fit one another. This was a major news story.
May 26, 2019 17:09:56 #
KenW
Loc: Portland OR
Dikdik wrote:
There is a metric equivalent for Mt. Everest and the Mariana trench... and, for all the other ones.
Dik
Dik
I know that, I was talking about most Americans on here, who can only think in feet and have a hard time computing those measurements into meters and it meaning anything to them.
May 26, 2019 17:48:11 #
In Metric, today would have been the 103 running of the Indy 804.6. Just doesn't sound as grand.
May 26, 2019 18:23:20 #
KenW
Loc: Portland OR
James56 wrote:
In Metric, today would have been the 103 running of the Indy 804.6. Just doesn't sound as grand.
Won by a Frenchman driving a Chevy powered car followed by an American driving a Honda powered car. So that means that the European was driving a car using the imperial standard and the American was using a car built with S.I. measurements. The margin of victory was 0.2 of a second. Indy 804.6 sounds catchy, maybe we should copyright it before someone else does.
May 26, 2019 18:53:53 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
James56 wrote:
In Metric, today would have been the 103 running of the Indy 804.6. Just doesn't sound as grand.
I have just tried to find the EXACT length of the Indy 500 as I would think that it may not be exactly 500 miles but perhaps 500 miles and 45 yards (or some such). But limited googling only turned up this (Wikipedia) quote - "a 2.5-mile (4 km) oval circuit" and "or a distanfce of 500 miles (800 km)" (their spelling not mine). So a bit of rounding going on here.
And on top of that not every driver will drive the same distance since they don't start and stop each at exactly 500 miles.
Or maybe they did the same thing as a US quart being smaller than an English quart and the Indy 500 is actually only 497 miles ? Just putting it out there.
May 26, 2019 20:38:55 #
KenW
Loc: Portland OR
chrissybabe wrote:
I have just tried to find the EXACT length of the ... (show quote)
I know the distance is 200 laps, first person who completes that at 2.5 miles a lap is the winner. This year the race boiled down to a twenty lap sprint. That amazing multi car pile up on the 179th lap, where you suddenly had 6 to 7 million dollars worth of wreckage blocking the racetrack, determined the outcome we saw today. It doesn't take much to cause an accident when you touch tires at 200 mph. You can bet they over boosted those engines for the last fifty miles or 20 laps.
May 26, 2019 22:01:07 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
It is interesting that I have so far found no information as the actual length of the Indy 500 track. It is quoted as being 2.5 mile but nothing (so far) tells me whether this is the inner, outer or race length. There could be some considerable variance in total distance depending on where you choose (or are forced) to drive. So I doubt whether the distance of the race is a true 500 miles exactly. So you do 200 laps but how far have you actually driven ? Then we should quibble over its distance in kilometres.
May 26, 2019 22:02:40 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
Forgot to mention that this is one of the longest thread I can remember.
May 27, 2019 05:46:58 #
chrissybabe wrote:
Forgot to mention that this is one of the longest thread I can remember.
Maybe we'll be able to refer to it as the Ugly Hedgehog 500.
~Lee
May 27, 2019 13:07:07 #
Have you noticed many hoggers have commented on how long it took for other countries to convert to metric? Look how looooong this thread is. And we aren't even trying to convert, just talking about it. Welcome to the first running of the Ugly Hedgehog 500 or the 804.6 for all you metric fans.
May 27, 2019 15:57:44 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
llamb wrote:
Maybe we'll be able to refer to it as the Ugly Hedgehog 500.~Lee
Should be the Ugly Hedgehog 800 in keeping with the spirit of change.
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