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From: Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
Subject: Re: The rye bread! Result and troubleshooting.
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On 2024-08-16, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2024-08-13, dsi1 <dsi100@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Rulers don't usually come in 10th of an inch. 16ths of an inch would be
>> more common. 2-13/16" would be close enough. I don't like the number
>> 13/16 though.
>> The truth is that I would usually just convert the inches to mm and then
>> divide by whatever i.e., 216mm/3 = 72mm. Easy as pie.
>
>
> When I was in high school, (1961-1964), we were told that the U.S. would
> soon be switching to metric. Soon, mechanical measurement, and nothing
> else did. 
> Because of my major, I'm familiar with metric weight and volume
> measurements, but distance is a mystery to me. 100 kilometers has
> something to do with .62. 

Do you have a dual speedometer on your car?  That might give you
a feel for the distances.  100 kilometers is about 62 miles.  Or
about 60 miles if you want to drop another sig fig.

> A meter is about 3 inches more than a yard.
> So, what's a foot? Nearly all home measurements here are in feet.

Really?  We almost always measure stuff in inches.  "Cut me a 116-inch
board, will you, dear?"  Of course, when we buy lumber, I always have
to do the arithmetic (which would be unnecessary if we used metric) to
spec the length of board in feet when we know what we want in inches.

A foot is about 30 centimeters.  Depending on what you're measuring
(and how often the rounding is repeated), that might be close enough.

> So far, our "conversion to metric" has cost me one additional set of tools.
> Plumbers haven't bought into it, so I still need a 1/2 inch wrench!
> I was lied to, by those in charge, when I was a kid!

You were certainly misled.  Those who were advocating for metric
underestimated the stubbornness and ignorance of the American public.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton