Laptop recomendations
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 15 21:03:47 UTC 2007
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > All American measurements are of these unusual division. The inch
> > itself is 1/12 foot, which is 1/5280 of a mile. Maybe not arbitrary,
> > but not very intuitive.
>
> Not to defend the US units, but hasn't the meter been redefined at least
> 3 times? Which of the choices was a unit that relates to something
> intuitive to a human?
>
I've worked a good deal with both, so am inclined to swap between Imperial and
Metric according to which fits the situation best. The problem with metric
is that we tend not to work in deci- and deca- units, so the gap between, for
instance, mm and m is to great. An inch and a foot are convenient. 30 cm.
feels unwieldy, and 1/2 metre is too big.
My daughter and I make the men in the family wince because we tend to take
measurements like 'four inches and two millimetres' :-) We're *very*
accurate ;-)
Anne
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