From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 13:52:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A118F37B8CB for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.180.220] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tungsten.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12ViBj-00077P-00; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:52:16 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00657; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:52:16 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:52:16 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Brett Taylor Cc: Paul Richards , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions Message-ID: <20000316215216.A248@parish> References: <20000316182207.C235@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:18:29PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:18:29PM -0500, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:10:59AM +0000, Paul Richards wrote: > > > > > 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake > > > > > > I'm not getting that one at all? > > > > > > > Neither do I. I didn't dream them up, I just posted them. > > 454 grams to the pound (roughly). Yes, I knew that. What I don't know is what "graham crackers" are, or is it just word-play on gram? > Why you'd compare a mass to a weight is > anyone's guess, but that's probably just the physics in me talking. :-) > Both the imperial and metric systems mix up mass and weight. I was always explained to me that this is because the average non-technical person can't understand the difference; buting 1kg of sugar is easy to grasp, but 9.81 Newtons? > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message