Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:13:06 -0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions Message-ID: <20000316141306.C2841@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000316215216.A248@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:52:16PM %2B0000 References: <20000316182207.C235@parish> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003161417340.57499-100000@peloton.runet.edu> <20000316215216.A248@parish>
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On Thursday, 16 March 2000 at 21:52:16 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > 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? The metric system made a distinction between weight and mass right from the beginning. The gram was the unit of mass, not weight; the unit of weight was the bary, which dropped out of use. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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