Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Leonard Blaisdell Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: The rye bread! Result and troubleshooting. Date: 16 Aug 2024 01:35:44 GMT Organization: Studio H Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <2c1a7178-a016-d328-094f-6181f4182f8f@example.net> <54aef908907fde592de07e46a1d8dc26@www.novabbs.com> <39fa3ebbdd4108b6f77e76863bec9816@www.novabbs.com> <7ea41ab8-0d1a-9400-7776-b1732ef95ba1@example.net> <6ea26f763cb1904582f71ef86434321e@www.novabbs.org> <5320a0a7-85ab-0133-baea-ff3e223cf87f@example.net> X-Trace: individual.net oZL7NDJGCoMPE+t702t0TQSgP/jmdcTtQfZSVr++zrDHAqMaDC Cancel-Lock: sha1:ypbjQGngDe3QhVfNRtKfm/hRhms= sha256:Edu92xJVihc5Y9NzHsSgz6cE3EIEnquts5f9Zn72bKU= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Darwin) Bytes: 2123 On 2024-08-13, dsi1 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. A meter is about 3 inches more than a yard. So, what's a foot? Nearly all home measurements here are in feet. 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!