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How thick can I get. My "science" reference book gives just 2.54 cm to the inch. This disagrees with my tape measure and I mustme using my new calculator as this gives a different answer.
Time is of the essence tonight so here I am at the font of all knowledge.
Thanks in advance friends,
SIQ.
Time is of the essence tonight so here I am at the font of all knowledge.
Thanks in advance friends,
SIQ.
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Well that's what it should be, so ... what does your tape measure/ calculator give?
16:21 Sun 28th Jul 2013
Yup folks I have used 2.54 all my life. My errors started to occur as I have been hurriedly doing various calculations in feet and inches for a planning permission doc for submission tomorrow. My tape measure gives 2.5 and a bit on the inch scale. I suddenly begin to think I've been using 2.40 accidentally in my DOUBLE-CHECK!
Thanks gang. No boasting but to let you all mock me but I've got a PhD in science (pmsl) but was over-anxious over getting the planning permission document right.
For his speed, best answer to jim360.
Back to re-check figures again now.
Humiliated again by brain-failure.
SIQ.
Thanks gang. No boasting but to let you all mock me but I've got a PhD in science (pmsl) but was over-anxious over getting the planning permission document right.
For his speed, best answer to jim360.
Back to re-check figures again now.
Humiliated again by brain-failure.
SIQ.
Dear gingejbee,
Wow you're a stirrer! Not sure of your point though. Are you saying imperial measures should be totally done-away with?
In my case of plannning permission I want no nonsensical come-backs so have given all distances in imperial and metric.
But abolition of imperial is not happening in Britain or the USA.
Sure weights and measures in imperial are illegal in sales outlets. But it's more complicated than simply laying down the law, in fact it's impossible for decades, if ever, to go to total metric! If I asked you how far it is from your home to the nearest town, I bet you would answer in miles, not kilometres. 'Cos your cars clock reads miles. The DVLC use the mile - see your MOT. Roads and higways are signposted in miles as are the speed limit signs. The police charge you for speeding according to mph.
Unlike decimalisation, conversions to metric can't be done by mental arithmatic because of the multiple decimal points involved.
When I worked in a lab we used only metric weights. But schizophrenically, as soon as I got home I became an "imperialist". So I still buy 1 or 2 lbs of sugar (in my mind), judging it by size not by calculating the gram weights.
Worth a new thread if you want to cause AB mayhem.
Regards,
SIQ.
Wow you're a stirrer! Not sure of your point though. Are you saying imperial measures should be totally done-away with?
In my case of plannning permission I want no nonsensical come-backs so have given all distances in imperial and metric.
But abolition of imperial is not happening in Britain or the USA.
Sure weights and measures in imperial are illegal in sales outlets. But it's more complicated than simply laying down the law, in fact it's impossible for decades, if ever, to go to total metric! If I asked you how far it is from your home to the nearest town, I bet you would answer in miles, not kilometres. 'Cos your cars clock reads miles. The DVLC use the mile - see your MOT. Roads and higways are signposted in miles as are the speed limit signs. The police charge you for speeding according to mph.
Unlike decimalisation, conversions to metric can't be done by mental arithmatic because of the multiple decimal points involved.
When I worked in a lab we used only metric weights. But schizophrenically, as soon as I got home I became an "imperialist". So I still buy 1 or 2 lbs of sugar (in my mind), judging it by size not by calculating the gram weights.
Worth a new thread if you want to cause AB mayhem.
Regards,
SIQ.
Thank you, SIQ: my question was not meant to stir anything or anybody!
In your position, I would have measured and submitted metrically - because that's what the planning department works in, presumably. Anything for a simple life, me!
Incidentally, I am as metrically inclined as it's possible to be, having used the system from age 11 in grammar school and throughout my working life as a "scientist".
(And I'd be happy if my car's mileometer was a kilometreometer!)
In your position, I would have measured and submitted metrically - because that's what the planning department works in, presumably. Anything for a simple life, me!
Incidentally, I am as metrically inclined as it's possible to be, having used the system from age 11 in grammar school and throughout my working life as a "scientist".
(And I'd be happy if my car's mileometer was a kilometreometer!)
Dear gingejbee,
Ty for answer. Very interesting and amusing. Hope your friends and relatives can always understand you outside of athletics.
Finally, I hope, I would like to see fahrenheit outlawed on max/min and other thermometers. Causes friction with me and my female partner when she tells me the conservatory figures. I can only think in terms of centigrade/celsius. I dont know what blood temperature is in fahrenheit although the conversion is easy to work out but don't care.
Wonder why he chose that scale - probably been on QI.
Regards
SIQ.
Ty for answer. Very interesting and amusing. Hope your friends and relatives can always understand you outside of athletics.
Finally, I hope, I would like to see fahrenheit outlawed on max/min and other thermometers. Causes friction with me and my female partner when she tells me the conservatory figures. I can only think in terms of centigrade/celsius. I dont know what blood temperature is in fahrenheit although the conversion is easy to work out but don't care.
Wonder why he chose that scale - probably been on QI.
Regards
SIQ.
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