Re: [GZG] [FT] Cancon 2006 Random Observations

[Roger Books <roger.books@xxxxxxxxx>]

Of course the US isn't going to go metric.  We're waiting on a system where all 
the fundamental constants are 1.  It also needs to use base 2 instead of a 
humanocentric base 10.  :)

Roger

On 2/1/06, Jerry Han <jhan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hugh Fisher wrote:
> Something this old fogey hadn't really noticed before is that kids
> have no idea how many inches there are in a foot. I'd brought along
> my trusty tape measure, which is old enough to vote and restarts
> numbering after each foot. So I'd say "You have to be within 18
> inches to be in range" and they'd just look at it blankly.

You know, this brings to mind a curiousity question -- what nations are
left that would still have reasonable facility with Imperial?  Canada
switched over to Metric almost thirty years ago now, but, because our
trade is so tied in to the United States, we still have to know Imperial
distance measurement pretty well.  And, the United States hasn't converted,
obviously (and probably never will.)  I presume most of Europe is metric,
and stayed there -- and the UK converted relatively recently, so it's
still mixed, right?

JGH
--
Jerry Han - jhan@xxxxxxxxxxxx - http://www.warpfish.com/jhan - TBFTGOGGI
"The snow is coming down, on our New England town, and it's been falling
all day long; what else is new? What can I do? But sing this Valley
Winter Song, I wrote for you" -- Fountains of Wayne,"Valley Winter Song"
_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing list
Gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l

_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing list
Gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l