On 10/25/2006 12:07:43 AM, Edward Dekkers wrote:
IOW, we are a very mixed up country ;-)
Anne
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AND the imperial gallon seems to be different to the US
Gallon as far as I understand.
As noted elsewhere, the imperial is slightly larger than
the US gallon. Means that your car gets better gas milage
in Canada than the US 8-).
I don't even want to know how many feet to a yard (it
must be less than three and a bit feet coz that's roughly
a metre).
Three feet to a yard.
Can you guys get any more confusing???
I seriously hope metric comes in strong. I know for the
ones in the know it's hard to change, but logically
speaking metric makes so much more sense. Celsius 0
degrees is freezing point of water, 100 degrees is
boiling point of water.
Where is the Fahrenheit or Kelvin logic?
Well, Fahrenheit set his scale to 100 degrees between the
coldest salt water/ice combination as zero and the normal
temperature of the human body at 100. The scale is logical,
although I find the set points a little odd. (I'm in the
US, for what it is worth.)
Kelvin is set to zero at the point where an ideal gas has
lost all translational motion, so called "absolute zero".
The size of the degree is the same as the Centigrade scale,
so the logic remains the same, just the zero point has
changed.
I guess it's just hard for people to let go of something
they know.
Yup.
