It's an omen!

Only 111 miles to go ... over here it would be kilometres, but some primitive countries have yet to adopt the metric system.

I don't have to start my car to read the Odometer ;) Analog baby!

Last time I looked, it was 296K and change.

Cheers

My car is only 10 years old, and my pick-em-up 15 ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Browsing Google Earth in the nuclear test range (near you) I saw a fantastic square structure that looks like a giant 555 die.

The US Congress had the Metric Act in 1866, but it seems that the Big West is a bit sluggish ...

I just pity the kids to have to learn how many yards in a mile etc.

OT: How many toes in a yard?

The UK is weird... miles and liters.

Like, pick a team already.

--sp

Thank goodness the Japanese forced the quality up on all manufacturers!

I have a 96, a 97 and a 2001 all Toyota, had to get rid of a 97 GMC Van with a head gasket leak. Picked up a 2007 GMC Van, hope I can get 10 years out of it. Years ago, I had problems with my 80's Chrysler's @ 60k miles. Head gasket on one and transmission on the other.

Mikek

That is about it though, used for long distances on roads. Shorter distances are in meters :)

Well there are also pints of course, allowed for beer only :)

There is a perfectly good reason for this: An Imperial pint is 568 ml, but the continental large beer is 500 ml, and the beer consumers are afraid of being cheated 68 ml.

Oh, it is worse than that; there's "hard metric" and "soft metric".

Classic example: "6 inch" tiles can be 150mm or 154mm.

But we are moving to metric, it is just that we are waiting for all the old people to die. Schoolkids have been taught metric units for a long long time, and science/engineering is exclusively metric.

Nevada? ...Jim Thompson

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The US is not one of them, so if you were trying to make a stupid crack, you succeeded.

You like that stone over kg a lot too.

And there's british ton and metric ton...and metric Pascal hasn't really caught on that well either especially since it's a stupidly small measure for practical applications.

The sum of the digits is his emotional age range...

Nonsense. Practical depends on what you do with it. Vacuum specialists might use uPa and hydraulic engineers might use MPa. That's what multiplier prefixes are for.

Jeroen Belleman

Pfft, big deal. Mine's coming up on pi * 10^5 ;-)

Tim

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We get along just fine using PSI without a bunch of kilo- and mega- prefixes all the time. Newtons per square meter- give me a break- a useless unit in most applications outside a laboratory.

How many figures are actually showing?

Or is it just a few significant figures and zeros after?