digital camera Q
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Oct 25 20:32:51 UTC 2006
Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 05:07, Edward Dekkers wrote:
>
>>The only thing that really gets me is that to me, metric seems so
>>logical. 10 millimetres to a centimetre, 100 centimetres to a metre,
>>1000 metres to a kilometre etc.
>>
>
> Precisely - with 10 digits on each hand and foot, what else should we use? :-)
>
>
>>12 inches is a foot
>>16 ounces is a pound
>>
>>???
>>
>
> Oh, we can do much better than that, if you look at the whole caboodle of
> historic weights and measures.
>
>
>>AND the imperial gallon seems to be different to the US Gallon as far as
>>I understand.
>>
>
> Yup.
16 or 20 ounces to a pint, depending on where you are. Of course the
ounces are different. I have yet to see a litre be different than a litre.
>
>
>>I don't even want to know how many feet to a yard (it must be less than
>>three and a bit feet coz that's roughly a metre).
>>
>
> That's easy - just 3 feet to the yard.
But my yard is bigger than three feet. My yard is about 17M by 15M.
And my feet are bigger than a foot. Or is it my foot is bigger than a foot?
>
>
>>P.S. Don't even get me started on the US having the month then day then
>>year for displaying dates. I don't get that either but caused quite a
>>bit of confusion when we were over there.
>
>
> Until you want to sort by date order, then year, month, day makes sense.
>
> Anne
>
But Year, Month and Day are an ISO standard. And we all follow
standards, oh well all but Microsoft. :)
Couldn't resist.
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Robin Laing
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