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And if you go to a liquor store... you buy a fifth which is a metric measure - it takes 5 bottles to make a gallon of Jack...
Actually, aren't "fifths" really 750ml now?
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Actually, aren't "fifths" really 750ml now?
Karl Brogger
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What happens when you have 5/8 of a centimeter? Do just call it .625cm, or 6.25mm? It's so confusing.
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Darn, just blew coffee on the monitor again . . . .
Jozsef Zsomle
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Post a question a little at a distance
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I grew up with the metric system. In Hungary, only the metric system is used. The Celsius temperature measurement is. I think it is completely irrelevant to what we call it when something is measured. The problem will be if we want to do something with the values: add, subtract, multiply. And then you have the metric system is easier to believe.
Good, if the units are based on some physical properties can be linked together.
For example:
If you measure the circumference of the earth to 1 / 40 000 000 = 1 meter
1m x 1m cube = 1,000 liters = 1cubic meter
1 liter water = 1 kg
When the water boils = 100 degrees Celsius
If the water freezes = 0 Celsius
:I grew up with the metric system. In Hungary, only the metric system is used. The Celsius temperature measurement is. I think it is completely irrelevant to what we call it when something is measured. The problem will be if we want to do something with the values: add, subtract, multiply. And then you have the metric system is easier to believe.
Good, if the units are based on some physical properties can be linked together.
For example:
If you measure the circumference of the earth to 1 / 40 000 000 = 1 meter
1m x 1m cube = 1,000 liters = 1cubic meter
1 liter water = 1 kg
When the water boils = 100 degrees Celsius
If the water freezes = 0 Celsius
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Jozef
It isn't a matter of the terminology. It is a matter of Yankee stubbornness resisting something we are not accustomed to being forced on us.
We still haven't forgotten that little party in 1776 that involved the British, muskets, rifles and such.
It isn't a matter of the terminology. It is a matter of Yankee stubbornness resisting something we are not accustomed to being forced on us.
We still haven't forgotten that little party in 1776 that involved the British, muskets, rifles and such.
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Jozef
It isn't a matter of the terminology. It is a matter of Yankee stubbornness resisting something we are not accustomed to being forced on us.
We still haven't forgotten that little party in 1776 that involved the British, muskets, rifles and such.
Yes. I understood. This argument is acceptable, but I am sure that soon the whole world will be a uniform size notation.
József
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everything is imperial for me except my D4R jig uses 8mm shank bits which they are kind enough to include a collet adaptor
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Actually, I buy so little liquor I really don't know... the last bottle I got was a gift from my step son last summer... a bottle of Canadian Mist that's 1.75 liters... the other bottle in my cabinet is a bottle of Tequila (which isn't opened yet and has been in the cabinet for at least 2 maybe 3 years...) is a full liter.
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