Re: What is happening with metrication?

"SteveB" <deserttraveler@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Came in late on this discussion due to a computer crash, but ........
>
> I have a tape with inches on one side and metrics on the other side. When
I
> want to measure, I find myself going to the metric side a LOT more. Look
> and see a number even I can remember in cm or mm, and then transpose it to
a
> piece of metal.
>
> Now, I look at the inch side, and it's , duh, 8 and uh three eighths, but
> just a little short er than three eights by about a third of a mark
> .........
>
> Now, to transpose ............ uh, what was that again .........
>
> remeasure ..........
>
>
> If it comes out and fits, what's the squawk?

That's a good point, but the problem there isn't metric versus inch. It's
decimal units versus fractions.

I'd like all US tape measures to be in decimal inches. No kidding.

I wrote a little HP program years ago to convert the fractional dimensions
on boatbuilding offsets to decimal inches, then converted some of the tables
in Chapelle's _Boatbuilding_ (I think it was) with the program. Then I
realized I didn't have a decimal-inch tape measure...

--
Ed Huntress


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