Please, God no!!!! When I was a kid in elementary school they taught us not just inches, feet, yards, and miles, but rods which in my experience nobody outside that 7th grade text book has ever used in real life. As they said, Spare the Rod and Spoil the child for he shall never have need of it. That went along with bushels and pecks which unless you worked in agriculture or a wholesale vegetable market have not been heard of since then anyplace that I have seen. I think it was something from Mark Twain's time, when he worked on that steamboat and was measuring the depth of the water with a rope. After that everything was in ounces and pounds and nobody who is not a farmer is dealing with pecks, whatever the hell they even are. I imagine a peck is the amount of grain a turkey can gooble up in a minute of pecking. How many pecks can a woodpecker peck when a woodpecker pecks on a tree? Ask the people who wrote Arithmetic texts in the 1950s, they can also tell you what time the train that leaves Grand Central Station at 10 a.m. in 1899 will arrive in Boston if it travels at an average of 5.66666 Rods per hour and only stops in New Haven and Hartford for 20 minutes each to take on coal and water.Am I the only one that still uses cubits, spans, and 'pouce' when I can't be bothered to find my tape measure?
And so to thread sizes. Whitworth was clever. His thread sizing system was wonderful, most of my bikes were held together with Whitworth, British Standard Fine, and the odd dash of 26TPI and 20TPI Cycle Thread just for fun.
It is a great sadness that there is no metric equivalent to Whitworth.
I think in feet and inches and pounds and stones but calculate in SI units.
Ah the delights of the ton vs tonne!
Shhhhh. Everyone I tell it makes them think how easy the metric system is to use. The biggest US obstacle is the general public being mathematically stupid. Yet everyone can count money including tax percentages.Decimal rather than metric, I think. Same sort of advantages when it comes to doing sums.
Rhys
1903?what time the train that leaves Grand Central Station at 10 a.m. in 1899 will arrive in Boston if it travels at an average of 5.66666 Rods per hour and only stops in New Haven and Hartford for 20 minutes each to take on coal and water.
In my programming days I used to have to do a lot of hexadecimal arithmetic, particularly when solving core dumps....At some point I thought we were going to adopt hexadecimal, but that didn't happen.
But they are totally compatible, provided your spanner is strong enough.It is a great sadness that there is no metric equivalent to Whitworth.
Self locking.But they are totally compatible, provided your spanner is strong enough.
and you never need to remove the nut
Due to you not being a native speaker of English or living in an English language environment, I'll give you leeway for that post. However, if you are truly fluent in English It's obvious that you lack awareness of verbal humor in such a blatantly obvious a non-serious joke question. It was a play on words, a form of linguistic humor of which many on here are fond. I don't use emojis to signal the import of discourse, any more than novelists do. The point of linguistic humor and puns, is that they are apparent by themselves.Let Me Google That
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Not totally, only 90 % so when they are with their Deci mates.What is Hex a decimal? I've heard of people putting hexes on others for various reasons, like hatred, jealousy, lost love, or revenge, but never on a decimal. Decimals are totally peace loving and never hurt anyone. It's not right, I say!!
Sexagesimal is the best anyways...What is Hex a decimal? I've heard of people putting hexes on others for various reasons, like hatred, jealousy, lost love, or revenge, but never on a decimal. Decimals are totally peace loving and never hurt anyone. It's not right, I say!!
Naturally, anything with sex involved in it is better. Even a Sexaphone.Sexagesimal is the best anyways...
I am a native English speaker. But as you are american, I'll give you leeway for having an atrophied sense of humor.Due to you not being a native speaker of English or living in an English language environment, I'll give you leeway
That was only back during the Trojan Wars when they won the battle against the Greeks and kicked pythagor ass.Not totally, only 90 % so when they are with their Deci mates.
Man, that's a shock. Are you from North Dakota? You remind me of the Stoic non-smiling character in Fargo who put Steve Buscemi's character in the wood chipper. Perhaps you are young and not into puns of the Dad joke variety that so many of us old farts enjoy. Life's too short and sad not to laugh at all of it, believe me. Don't wait until you are so old that your face is frozen, as my best friend's Irish grandma used to tell us.I am a native English speaker. But as you are american, I'll give you leeway for having an atrophied sense of humor.
Sexagesimal is the best anyways...
Spanner? George, since when have you been British? It's an adjustable wrench!!!This is why I use a standard-agnostic spanner.