Inge,
you are a stickler--as engineers we KNOW that nothing is PERFECT--but 1/3 litter of your favorite brewski on a hot afternoon comes damn close.
Werner
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Subject: Re: [TN] European Union Council Directive 80/181/EEC (Metric Directive) - NTC
you said perfect? Have to disappoint you. There is
nothing such. If we get into such a world, we will all fade away. It's the
imperfection that gives us energy.
Inge
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Inge,
Some of what you say
is true in Sweden [Scandinavia], but not necessarily in the rest of Europe.
One reason my wife has trouble with my mother's recipes, is because they are
in dkg (=100 mg), not teaspoons.
But what really hurts is the beer
comment---33cl is a perfect 1/3 of a liter [not too much and not too little]
and is called a 'Seidl' in austria and parts of
Germany.
Werner
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N] European Union Council Directive 80/181/EEC
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Noone
is perfect, not even in Europe. If I go to the timberyard to buy some boards,
let's say 10 meters of dimension 25x100 mm, they will just look at me as being
stupid. You see, THICKNESS is still in inches, but WIDTH in millimeters. So, I
must say 10 meters 1"x100 mm. If they are very modern, you may ask for 22 mm
or 28 mm, and then you get 25 mm, which is one inch. And nearly all builders
say 2 inch nails, 3 inch nails etc, but the length is in millimeters. And the
tire pressure ought to be kPa, but all say kg (kilogram). And we sin every day
by saying that the barometer shows 700 millimeters instead of Pa. And we say
that the wind speed is nn knots instead of m/s. And all millions of folding
rules we have here are named 'inch tools' and not meter tools. And the beer is
33 cl and not an even multiple of 1000 cl. And cooks use teaspoons and not
milligrams. And not one normal man dare say his BMW got nn kilowatts. And
textiles and an silts are name with mesh and not openings per centimeter. And
diamonds are valued in carat, which is a little nut. I could go on until you
fell asleep.
Viva the
imperfection!
Inge
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Remember, whether it's 9.8 m/sec2 or 32.2 ft/sec2, it's
still 1 G.
Lee Whiteman, PMP
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Steve
Your note reminded me of one
the worst modifications made to the English
system and that was the
decimal inch. This allowed users to think they had
a metric system
equivalent and did not need to make the change, which was a
BIG
mistake.
Let go crash some more Mars explorers...
;-)
Cheers,
Joe
In a
message dated 4/14/2009 8:57:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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writes:
Mike,
As a similar aside, I have
had many 'knowledgeable' individuals verbally
refer to a 'mm'
[millimeter] as a 'mil'.... ouch!
Let me assure you, that
when bonding '1 mil' gold wire, I am referring to
'0.001 inch'. 'One
mil' is20so much easier to say than 25.4 µm [or microns]
....[yes, I
know all the arguments, but the real problem comes in when
people do
not pay attention to labels. In the olden days of chalk
board
and
slate, we were taught to 'mind our labels' when it
came to math. Alas,
ignorance is bliss.]
Should
anyone have any 1 mm gold wire they wish to dispose of,20I
would
gladly put it into my unemployment fund!! I would even spring
for
shipping!!
We'll get there
eventually.
Steve
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