It's a conspiracy - check your measuring devices

[mikehaugen]

It would have worked great if our base numbering system had 12 (or16) numbers to begin with, then you wouldn't need letters. But who is going to go and change that!

 

[dave1949]

It would have worked great if our base numbering system had 12 (or16) numbers to begin with, then you wouldn't need letters. But who is going to go and change that!

A large army of consultants, just like Y2K. Dream it, and they will come like bears to honey. :laughing:

 

[Larro Darro]

How many Fircans in a Hogshead?

1 hogshead =
5.82871688 firkins

It's according to what's in the hogshead. It changes for beer, wine and other products. But I think a firkin is always eight gallons Imp.

Edit: I was wrong. A firkin of ale is 8, but it is 9 for beer.

Barrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Larro Darro]

Now I know why I weigh almost 16 stone. I confused my teaspoon with a tablespoon when I was eating ice cream. {it's not my fault}

 

[mikehaugen]

Now I know why I weigh almost 16 stone. I confused my teaspoon with a tablespoon when I was eating ice cream. {it's not my fault}

Are those "rolling stones"? :laughing:

 

[Larro Darro]

Are those "rolling stones"? :laughing:

They are English, so it might be.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Question - would the world be a better place if everyone used the same measuring system and spoke the same language?

Gene Roddenberry thought so...

 

[Egon]

Question - would the world be a better place if everyone used the same measuring system and spoke the same language?

Depends a lot on how big your world is!

 

[Wagtail]

It would have worked great if our base numbering system had 12!

We partially do have a base 12 system... it's why time is kept in multiples/divisions of 12.

 

[Bird]

Has anyone ever worked in a place that calculated hourly time on tenths of hours? Because every 10th is 6 minutes, you really get into some mental gymnastics when you work 15 minutes and can't put 2.5 on a time card because you have to only use even tenths. Some hourly workers had trouble counting anything more than the fingers on their hands and the every 6 minutes = 1/10th just caused their eyes to glaze over. Explaining round-up or round-down was impossible, so we had charts showing what the number of minutes from 1-60 equaled in tenths. Some people were lost without their chart.

Yep, when I worked for the Post Office in the late '50s early '60s, we punched a time clock that used tenths.