D20 Modern - Feet or Meters
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MonkeyBoy
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LOL...
We brits have it bad;
We measure our running tracks in metres, but distances between cities in miles
We measure the floorspace of rooms in square metres, but fields in hectare OR acres
We measure the volume of a drink in a bottle in litres, but in a glass we use pints
We sell petrol by the litre, but publish fuel economy figures in miles per gallon (!)
The public measure engine power in horse power, car manufacturers publish it in kilowatts, and yet the public expect to see engine capacity in litres (thats right; metal block, but size in a fluid measurement please...)
Your doctor will record your height and weight in kilograms and metres, but discuss them with you in feet and inches, or stones and pounds (weight of a human is usually done in stones and fractions of stones, but wieght change for a human is done in pounds)
and to flit back to the guns thing, our army uses the SA80, for gawds sake!
we brits are messed up!
We brits have it bad;
We measure our running tracks in metres, but distances between cities in miles
We measure the floorspace of rooms in square metres, but fields in hectare OR acres
We measure the volume of a drink in a bottle in litres, but in a glass we use pints
We sell petrol by the litre, but publish fuel economy figures in miles per gallon (!)
The public measure engine power in horse power, car manufacturers publish it in kilowatts, and yet the public expect to see engine capacity in litres (thats right; metal block, but size in a fluid measurement please...)
Your doctor will record your height and weight in kilograms and metres, but discuss them with you in feet and inches, or stones and pounds (weight of a human is usually done in stones and fractions of stones, but wieght change for a human is done in pounds)
and to flit back to the guns thing, our army uses the SA80, for gawds sake!
we brits are messed up!
MonkeyBoy
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I forgot to mention that UK pints and gallons (and tons - or is that tonnes, never can remember - and billions) are all actually different measures to the US ones...
and who knows how long a league is? or how much a guinea is worth? or why bakers cannot count to 12 successfully?!?
and who knows how long a league is? or how much a guinea is worth? or why bakers cannot count to 12 successfully?!?
CRGreathouse
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bensei said:
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feet and nano-seconds thats what you should use. These are god's units since light travels a foot per nanosecond in vacuum. This is not exactly right you have to redefine the foot to arount 12 1/2 inches or so but it is a true NATURAL unit. Metric bah I want c=1 (the speed of light).
Blacksad
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MonkeyBoy said:
do not think that you are alone, France use hectare too.
horse power here too for car
In France the public speaks of speed in kilometer hour instead of kilometer per hour, some people speaks in ancient Francs (1F=100 ancient F and 1€=6.56F)
so, I think that all Europe is crazy with units (but at least we all know what the metric measurment means
)and France is the country that invented the metric system, and is supposed to use it since 2 centuries!
Gez
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And so is the case. Hectare is one of the metric mesure. 1 hectare= 100 ares (same as 1 hectoliter is 100 liters). 1 are being a 10 meters by 10 meters square (100 sq. meters), one hectar is 10 000 sq. meters. In outdated complicated not simple units, it makes about two-and-one-half acres.
The horse power for car is anoying, though. Especially given that there are two of them, fiscal horses and power horses.
As for the old francs, I think they will at least disappear. Dividing by 100 is easy, dividing by 6,55957 is not so. The euro will at least get us rid of these people speaking in old francs.
Blacksad
Explorer
Gez said:
square meter is a metric measure, hectare is easily translated in square meter (or square kilometer) , but it isn't a metric mesure (same thing with pascal and bar, pascal is metric but bar isn't, even if you can go from one to the other easily), for a final point: my physics teatcher would kill me if I answered to a question in hectare
and I agree that hectoliter is metric (like hectogramme, hectometer, or femtometer, or picojoule, but those aren't often used
)and for the old franc they easily translate 100 F in 15€, so those above 50 years will still tend to use it for a few years I think.
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