From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 14:17:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (dhcp152.cdrom.com [204.216.28.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D3937BCED for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:17:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA03476; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:13:06 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: Brett Taylor , Paul Richards , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions Message-ID: <20000316141306.C2841@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <20000316182207.C235@parish> <20000316215216.A248@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000316215216.A248@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:52:16PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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