GeneV
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Metric system is for bidet users.
reading a dial caliper
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I am not much for bidets, but having used both systems throughout my career, I sure wish the US would have adopted the metric system back in 1776. Everything is so much easier. But unfortunately my brain has become calibrated to think in inches, pounds, and BTU's.
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As much as I hate to admit it; I agree.
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Anyone that doesn’t agree probably hasn’t spent over an hour measuring anything and then doing anything with the measurement’s. Try laying off a square building in inches and let me know how that works for you. Say it’s 30 ft square. The diagonal of that would be 42.42. Not 4 inches, .4. An engineer tape measure makes that an easier job but that’s basically just admitting metric is better but you don’t want to admit it. Next problem, let’s say you need to order concrete for a ditch that’s 28” wide, 14” deep and 300 ft long. Calculating in feet doesn’t work well. I convert everything to inches and divide back when I’m done. 28x14x3600. Then divide that number by 1728 to put it back to cubic feet. Then divide that number by 27 to get cubic yards. Let’s just do an easy problem next. Say you have a board that’s 47-5/8 of an inch that you want to cut in 3rds. That’s not that easy to divide out in your head. That same board would be 1200.09 mm. Anyone could easily divide that by 3.
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Only time I convert decimal to fraction or millimeter, is when I trying to find a "close enough" drill bit (fractional)....
But there is this....
Convert for Windows
Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert many of the most popular units.joshmadison.com
Must be something similar for Android or IPhone...
Alexa does a good job on conversions if you ask her right. Just tonight-
"Alexa, how many pounds is 66 grams?"
"...about 2 ounces."
"Alexa, EXACTLY how many pounds is 66 grams?
"...about 2 ounces."
"Alexa, how many pounds is 66 grams EXACTLY?"
".... 0.1455052...pounds."
And Siri converted it to 0.15 pounds, on her first try.
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MAX-24-Dean
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Oh no, your in trouble by now!
Just have to do it the way it was done before technolgy got us all into the same trouble.
I learned on a slide rule, and my mental approximations have been accurate enough to correct the errors from others hitting the wrong key on thier calculators.
Next question is would I trust Alexa or Siri with a correct answer all the time. The answer to that is, (drum roll) NO!!
npalen
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I've grown accustomed to multiplying by four when wondering about decimal inches equivalent to a know metric measurement. Example would be 18 mm times four would be a little less than 0.72 inches. Not exact by any stretch but so used to thinking in imperial making metric hard to visualize.
The U.S. definitely should have followed thru on going metric back in the seventies!
Something I did early in my career was memorizing decimal equivalents up to 32nds. Then its fairly easy to convert 64's to decimal by considering the nearest 32nd then adding about 15 thou. Have rarely used decimal equivalent charts.
The U.S. definitely should have followed thru on going metric back in the seventies!
Something I did early in my career was memorizing decimal equivalents up to 32nds. Then its fairly easy to convert 64's to decimal by considering the nearest 32nd then adding about 15 thou. Have rarely used decimal equivalent charts.