Recent content by Daniel

Obviously Lew's story here is complete fiction by a person disgruntled because he has shown himself to be obsolete in a metric world. What I see is a world that increasingly buys German, Japanese, Italian, Chinese and products designed, engineered, manufactured and serviced in metric units and...

It matters to the person when a round number in metric doesn't come out as a round number in obsolete units. If I need a hole drilled that must be 50.00 mm +/-0.01 in diameter and the same dimension is 1.968 503 937 inches, are you going to tell me that such a number is acceptable in inch units...

Wow! Is this the type of thinking that comes from the American educational system? But why am I not surprised? There was never an attempt by the French or anyone else to divide the meter in any parts other than multiples and sub-multiples of 10. The inch of 25.4 mm did not exist until 1960...

This is exactly where the conflict comes into play. When you choose a set of units to work with, you gravitate towards sensible rounded numbers. Sensible rounded numbers in one unit don't translate to sensible rounded numbers in another unit. To those of us who work in the metric system, the...

By the same token a similar discussion could result with a different outcome: ME = My Brother. And Her = My Neice HER: Dad, I need money for a haircut ME: Why do you need a haircut? HER: I need to take a few centimeters off the back ME: Centimeters? - Who the hell is teaching you to...