From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 14:22:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A92137B589 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:22:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA58815; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:20:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:20:43 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Mark Ovens Cc: Paul Richards , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions In-Reply-To: <20000316215216.A248@parish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Mark, On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > > 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake > Yes, I knew that. What I don't know is what "graham crackers" are, or > is it just word-play on gram? Graham crackers a type of cracker (I remember eating them as kids) - sort of "gingerbread" kind of flavor. > 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? And yet buying 1 pound of sugar is fine, but not 1 slug (reversed roles). I'll stick w/ mass - at least I'll buy the same amount on each planet or in an accelerating frame. :-) 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 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message