From: David Neale (david.neale_at_pandora.be)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 09:32:12 PDT
On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 17:09 Europe/Brussels,
newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
> Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 16:13:58 +0200
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] OT Kilometers
> From: Jon Glass <jonglass_at_usa.net>
>
> ... Metric comes from a lab and is too abstract for practical life.
> Plus, its whole
> method forces one to either measure in mm, or cm or m or (strangely
> enough,
> straight to km--when was the last time you ever heard somebody say that
> something was 3 dkm long?)...
> --
> -Jon Glass
> Krakow, Poland
>
Probably about the same time I heard someone referring to a length of
3-10-miles or 3-1/10-miles, (depending on whether your "d" is a deca or
deci). It's not done -- you refer to 30 miles or... well, whatever
3-1/10-miles is equivalent to in furlongs, chains, yards, feet and
inches (it's 2 furlongs, 4 chains, I believe, but you get the idea, and
who uses those measurements, except in specialised cases!). Point is,
nobody uses dkm. The metric system is very simple, but its detractors
use non-real-life examples to make it look difficult.
See
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=47&l=&c3
Isn't this off topic?
David
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