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I think that batteries must believe in reincarnation, as they always have a positive end.
Yeah, you tell them.
BTW, make sure our days are none of that metric silly stuff.... you know... pounds, ounces, gallons, forthnights, cubits...
Don't even get me started on time. 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours but split into 12 hour sections! WTF?
Fractions are a pain with measurements plenty of times but other times 12 inches is nicer than 304.8mm. At what point does it become 30.48cm? Or .3048 meters? There is too big of a jump between centimeters and meters. How did nobody think of something for in-between? And when cutting speaker cabinet wood I can get pretty dang close to 1/16" of an inch with a skill saw but 1mm is just nuts.
Then there's the people when designating capacitors they mix the values, its a 33uF for one but they can't possibly write .033uF for another, instead that is 33000pF and then somewhere else it's 33nF.
But, few things were as bad as the US cars from the 80s that had both metric and standard nuts and bolts on them.
Fractions are a pain with measurements plenty of times but other times 12 inches is nicer than 304.8mm. At what point does it become 30.48cm? Or .3048 meters? There is too big of a jump between centimeters and meters. How did nobody think of something for in-between? And when cutting speaker cabinet wood I can get pretty dang close to 1/16" of an inch with a skill saw but 1mm is just nuts.
Then there's the people when designating capacitors they mix the values, its a 33uF for one but they can't possibly write .033uF for another, instead that is 33000pF and then somewhere else it's 33nF.
But, few things were as bad as the US cars from the 80s that had both metric and standard nuts and bolts on them.
I had an 89 Aerostar that was a frustrating mix of metric and standard.
To make matters worse, it had some parts from the 88 model which the dealers didn't know about.
It was always an adventure that shouldn't have been.
To make matters worse, it had some parts from the 88 model which the dealers didn't know about.
It was always an adventure that shouldn't have been.
I learned about decimeters (10cm) and decameters (10m). and hectometers (100m). There's your inbetweens.
The 100m distance stakes with the highway numbers along our highways are called hectometer stakes.
Or deciliters and hectoliters.
It's all there.
Jan
Centimeters (centimetres) are not SI units.
Everything increments in thousands.
mm, m, km...
I can't visualise cm, I have to mentally convert to mm or m first.
I mean I know what 1cm is but say 79cm? No it's 0.79m or 790mm.
I work in both metric and imperial and know which I prefer.
Don't confuse familiarity with practicality.
Everything increments in thousands.
mm, m, km...
I can't visualise cm, I have to mentally convert to mm or m first.
I mean I know what 1cm is but say 79cm? No it's 0.79m or 790mm.
I work in both metric and imperial and know which I prefer.
Don't confuse familiarity with practicality.
Computers use Unix time internally. Milliseconds since 1970 January 1. Anything before that date did not exist (not even modern computers). What ENIAC did use? Perhaps it did not have any concept of time.
I'm jot using deci- and deca in practise either, but the point made was that there are no intermediary steps. There are. If you're not familiar or not use them doesn't make them go away ;-)
Jan
We metrics are familiar with cents and deca/deci - 1/100 and 1/10 units. In kitchen we have deciliter cups and markings in bowls based on them. Eg. SEAS names woofers with centimeters and tweeters with millimeters. Easy!
I must think a while to know which is longer, 1/4" or 3/16" Or 200 yards vs. 1/8 mile! Then volume and weight units... crazy stuff!
I must think a while to know which is longer, 1/4" or 3/16" Or 200 yards vs. 1/8 mile! Then volume and weight units... crazy stuff!
For the average Joe's things like micro nano pico etc starts to escape their concept of understanding, and few years ago when the '5G is a weapon' conspiracy was a hot potato in alternative circles, I heard one person who tried to whip up some FUD by, instead of saying something like 0,25 Watt transmitted power (which is nothing), instead expressed it as 250,000 micro Watts and went on like.. "you know... these kind of mindbogglingly high levels of radiation.. it's going to fry your brain...".
But, much of that crap is controlled opposition to make any real opposition look insane, and fooling people who are not familiar with the wider range of unit/metric prefixes.
btw, as of 2022 we have some new prefixes, hooray!
quetta (Q) = 10^30
ronna (R) = 10^27
ronto (r) = 10^−27
quecto (q) = 10^−30
https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2022/resolution-3
But, much of that crap is controlled opposition to make any real opposition look insane, and fooling people who are not familiar with the wider range of unit/metric prefixes.
btw, as of 2022 we have some new prefixes, hooray!
quetta (Q) = 10^30
ronna (R) = 10^27
ronto (r) = 10^−27
quecto (q) = 10^−30
https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2022/resolution-3
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