Aww rats, they fooled me with the "-e" ending, though I should have seen it coming because the Spaniards tricked me many years ago with "el sistema."
That *was* the meter. But, as an added improvement, metric units are now defined in such a way that you can find them to absolute precision using nothing more than a good laboratory and their definitions. Except the kilogram.The second is a defined number of ultrafine state transitions of a ceasium atom. The meter is defined as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in a specified fraction of a second.
CC, given that the MPG's here have two values, one for highway driving and one for city driving, it seems to make more sense to have it as MPG to switch between the two since you're probably not going to be doing 100 km of in-city driving
even then, the UK has the crazy situation that roads are built to metric specifications, distances measured in metric, and then the distance in metres is painted on signs as yards. It's not yards. It's metres. Anyone who cannot comprehend how big a metre is after forty years of metric measurements probably shouldn't be driving.I've also noticed that there is a much greater use of dual unit height restriction / width restriction road signs on the roads frequented by international hauliers. It's not compulsory for such road signs to include the metric measurements, just utterly sensible.Medical records in the UK are metric. They don't use stones, pounds, ounces, feet or inches.
dustin00Feb 9, 2010
Why stop there? If you go base 84, then you can divide by 7 too!
dhoneywellFeb 10, 2010
Aww rats, they fooled me with the "-e" ending, though I should have seen it coming because the Spaniards tricked me many years ago with "el sistema."
zanixmechanixFeb 18, 2010
It's like barking up a tree.
suricouFeb 18, 2010
That *was* the meter. But, as an added improvement, metric units are now defined in such a way that you can find them to absolute precision using nothing more than a good laboratory and their definitions. Except the kilogram.The second is a defined number of ultrafine state transitions of a ceasium atom. The meter is defined as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in a specified fraction of a second.
thanatosstFeb 25, 2010
CC, given that the MPG's here have two values, one for highway driving and one for city driving, it seems to make more sense to have it as MPG to switch between the two since you're probably not going to be doing 100 km of in-city driving
welshieFeb 26, 2010
even then, the UK has the crazy situation that roads are built to metric specifications, distances measured in metric, and then the distance in metres is painted on signs as yards. It's not yards. It's metres. Anyone who cannot comprehend how big a metre is after forty years of metric measurements probably shouldn't be driving.I've also noticed that there is a much greater use of dual unit height restriction / width restriction road signs on the roads frequented by international hauliers. It's not compulsory for such road signs to include the metric measurements, just utterly sensible.Medical records in the UK are metric. They don't use stones, pounds, ounces, feet or inches.
Closed AccountFeb 27, 2010
You can't feel the differences in temperature when they are that small anyway so you don't need to say the decimals.
zl123Apr 9, 2010
It's not a country, silie.
zl123Apr 9, 2010
It's Alaska. It's not a country.Silly.You do not know Alaska @ all?