Re: [GZG] Weights and measures was: Hypothetical weapon question

How about the Rankine scale?  Rankine is to Farenheit what Kelvin is to
Celsius

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Samuel Penn <sam@glendale.org.uk>
wrote:
>
> On Tue, October 28, 2008 02:40, Indy wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> You know, I just realized there's one unit of
>>> measure I've yet to see converted to metric.
>>>
>>> Grains. I haven't seen a lot of decigram
>>> calibrated scales out there. But then I guess
>>> that a lot of metric countries don't have people
>>> loading their own ammunition.
>>>
>
> Heard of milligrams being used a lot, never decigrams.
>
>> And while we're at it, when did we stop using the good ol' Kelvin
scale
>> for
>> temperature measurement?? Geez, all I ever hear about anymore are
>> Farenheit and Celsius...
>
> I might be missing the sarcasm, but Kelvin is used a lot in
> physics and astronomy. Haven't heard of anyone mention
> Farenheit for ages, except once recently when none of us
> present could remember how to convert it to Celsius.
>
>
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