The following expressions have been found to be accurate to within ±n.
The metric system is for sissies who are too lazy to do the math. I mean really, would you rather do:
1.2 + 4 + 13.5 + 17.5
or.....
3/64 + 5/32 + 17/32 + 11/16 ???
Think of the lack of productivity. You design a cabinet using metric measurements, and when you build it you only get one cabinet. I design a cabinet using imperial measurements and I get 5 cabinets - all different sizes no less! Talk about getting the most out of one set of measurements.
And consider how inflexible the metric system is. You have litres: we have Imperial Gallons, US (dry)Gallons, US (liquid)Gallons, Imperial Ounces, Us Ounces, Imperial Pints, US (dry)Pints, US (liquid)pints, Imperial Quarts, US (dry)Quarts, US (liquid)Quarts, Imperial Bushels, US Bushels.
You have Euros: we have US$, Canadian$, Aussie$, Kiwi$, HongKong$, Bahamian$, Fiji$, East Carribean$, Singapore$, Trinidad&Tobago$, and Taiwanese New$.
How can you stand to be so limited?
And while we're on the topic of units and conversions in TurboCad, what about the following:
- 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
- 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
- 10 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
- 500 millinaries = 1 seminary
- 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
- 10 cards = 1 decacards
- 1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn
- 454 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
- 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
- 1 million billion picolos = 1 gigolo
- 10 rations = 1 decoration
- 100 rations = 1 C-ration
- 10 millipedes = 1 centipede
- 10 monologs = 5 dialogues
- 2 monograms = 1 diagram
- 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
- 2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
- 2 wharves = 1 paradox
- 1 hundredth of a mental = 1 centimental
- 1 tenth of a mate = 1 decimate
- 10¯12 boos = 1 picaboo
- 10¯15 bismol = 1 femtobismol
- 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
- 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
- Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
- 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League
- Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle
- Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong
- 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling = 1 lite year
- 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
- Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
- 1000 aches = 1 megahurtz
- Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
- Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
- Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
- Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = bananosecond
- A Half-Bath = 1 demijohn
- 100 Senators = Not 1 decision
- and finally -
1 trillion bulls = This posting by Randy*
Regards....Randy (*terabull)