That state of metric conversion in the US

Edward Teller in his "legacy of Hiroshima" wrote about that in 1962:

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kind of federal push to convert the country to the

obvious by now, not much came out of that initial

the metric system is so much simpler? Much of the

following their lead just impedes international commerce.

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What about 1/10? But 26/256 is very close to 0.1 inches.

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Exactly. Aside the nonsense of having a nautical mile different from the land one (can't wait to see how much power is a nautical watt or how many donuts are worth five nautical dollars!:^), if they start using metric system they should convert everything to it including what is being expressed in other units even in metric speaking countries. Definitely not easy or immediate but we have to start somewhere.

Best brush up on your figures for Acres.

Dan

Indeed, an acre is a chain by a furlong.

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Or, if you prefer, very close to European paper size of A-13.

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Yeah. It's a bitch on fractions like 1/3, though. .3333333........

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I've never seen characters other than alphanumeric ones. Strange. I wonder how out-of-state police departments handle them? Ignore the special characters?

There are some pretty clever ones. One Illinois urologist had "PPMD". A Jaguar driver took CA to court over APUSSY (and won). Then there's the whole controversy about the Matthew 10:16(?) thing.

No idea, it's their problem :-)

Other parts of the world are used to that. For example, in Germany we saw many Russian trucks after the iron curtain crumbled away. Their plates were partially unintelligible to anyone not familiar with the kyrillic alphabet.

Then we had the occasional cars from North Africa:

VA plates can include the & symbol in addition to dash and space. I've heard that the & is mapped to the letter A in the databases but have no source for that.

VA also used to be home to "The World's Greatest License Plate"

A diplomatic tag, surely.

That is pretty funny.

I've only had one vanity plate and that for only a couple of years in Vermont ("SHIVVER"). A lot of people noticed. ;-) ...which is pretty much why I got rid of it.

Both of these responses prove my point. Fractions aren't very useful for anything other than fractions and have a hard time dealing with anything outside of that domain.

BTW, why would you write 10/64 rather than 5/32? But then that also shows the absurdity of these fractions. Fractions divide, decimals rule!

On Feb 18, 5:37 pm, George Herold wrote: and an acre is ~22,000 sq feet.

That's off by a lot more than 5%.

Canada reverted back to pounds for food and US gallons which are smaller when free trade started and US goods appeared cheaper as did any food by the pound rather than kg or 2.2lb.

old People still use inches, feet &miles if they prefer but are equally conversant in millimeters and km

But to use 'F which is non-linear is so wrong to be used by any engineers compared to 'C.

The cost of education unfortunately is higher than the benefits of converting to metric for Americans, so they shall be in their archaic units of measure for a long time.

There is a Wikipedia article on it.

It's missing a section Electronics Engineering. Maybe somebody here can add it. You can reference the Wikipedia page on surface mount technology and printed circuit boards.

compared to 'C.

Fahrenheit is a linear transformation from Celsius (Centigrade):

F = 32 + C * 9 / 5,

so it is as linear as Celsius, but with different gain and bias.