Metrication and three legged donkeys (was: Re: POA book differences)

[arrowsmithbt]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > Wish I could remember the rest, then I could transpose it to Imperial.
> > Hmm. What's 2.54 dingies? Or if I multiply by 0.001296 I get it in
> > Scruples -  something I've never had before.
> > 
> > Kneasy
> 
> I think your conversion factor is backwards.  If a scruple is tiny,
> you can't have 0.001296 Scruples/Dinghy -- it must be
> Dinghies/Scruple, so you'd have to divide.  Didn't they teach you to
> always write out your units and cancel properly? <g>  Or, was this a
> Psych lab you were hanging out in? <double g>
> 
> Annemehr

Psych?  The only times I psych is when I play bridge.

You're not the only one to question my maths, the Inland Revenue do too.
Despite the tech/sci background I still like to use Imperial in real life;
Centigrade might be temperature,  but Fahrenheit is weather. Metres are
length but miles are distance. And it's possible to really upset  shop 
managers by converting decimal prices back to old £.s.d. and complaining
bitterly about profiteering. It invariably sets off any old dear in the sho=
p too.
Why be difficult when with a little effort you can be downright impossible?=


Kneasy