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[Vagabond]

It's very like people who've never had a bet!!

They don't understand "Odds"

Now I am not a betting man, precisely because I DO understand odds !!

 

We had a self-opinionated and self-righteous RI teacher at school who threatened us with hellfire and eternal damnation if we ever dared go near a bookie. Now I have a nose for empty threats, and left to this twerp I might have become a life-long punter.**

 

However, our maths teacher got bored with quadratic equations one morning, and as a diversion led us through the mathematics of "making a book". That was utterly convincing and I have never wasted money in supporting the life-style of William Hill and his ilk.

 

** After one of his diatribes, I was so annoyed that I found out his home address, and sent him an unstamped letter which read "Bet you tuppence-ha'penny this will cost you fivepence" (Postage due in those days was double the value of the missing stamps)

Edited March 31, 2017 by Vagabond

[Phone]

All,

 

Does anyone but me remember this? """"NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system."""""

 

I'll get to you later Ayjay.

 

Phone

[Phone]

All,

 

On the meter thing. I thought a gallon of water = 3.79 liters? (= means "approximately equal to" [for Martin]). My whole life I have used the US customary units of weights and measures. I no doubt error-ed with my "1.3". Anyone who didn't understand didn't give a rats arce anyway.

 

I can't help it if the UK has jacked up both the metric system and the imperial system all at the same time. Makes sense to me. How much is a pound sterling?

 

Phone

[chesters1]

All,

 

On the meter thing. I thought a gallon of water = 3.79 liters? (= means "approximately equal to" [for Martin]). My whole life I have used the US customary units of weights and measures. I no doubt error-ed with my "1.3". Anyone who didn't understand didn't give a rats arce anyway.

 

I can't help it if the UK has jacked up both the metric system and the imperial system all at the same time. Makes sense to me. How much is a pound sterling?

 

Phone

A pound sterling is a £ to you mebbe less

Your gallons are smaller than ours so we get more metrics in it

[chesters1]

All,

 

On the meter thing. I thought a gallon of water = 3.79 liters? (= means "approximately equal to" [for Martin]). My whole life I have used the US customary units of weights and measures. I no doubt error-ed with my "1.3". Anyone who didn't understand didn't give a rats arce anyway.

 

I can't help it if the UK has jacked up both the metric system and the imperial system all at the same time. Makes sense to me. How much is a pound sterling?

 

Phone

A pound sterling is a £ to you mebbe less

Your gallons are smaller than ours so we get more metrics in it

 

And yes i left out the . earlier

[Phone]

All,

 

Weights and measures, for me, a non-arithmetic person, are impossible. I will agree with whatever you want to say.

 

1 U.S. fluid ounce = 1.041 British fluid ounces 1 British fluid ounce = 0.961 U.S. fluid ounce 1 U.S. gallon = 0.833 British Imperial gallon 1 British Imperial gallon = 1.201 U.S. gallons. What the 'ell??

 

Then we divide our $ into 100 parts. Of course, we have a half and a quarter dollar just to keep chit confused.

 

Chesters1,

 

I thought a pound sterling was a ton (2000 lbs)

 

Phone

 

edit: Martin, Architects, and associated trades use 1/64 - 1/32 - 1/16 - 1/8 - etc. Engineers and associated trades use 10 - 20 - 30 - 40 - etc. Even that is not all that easy.

Edited April 1, 2017 by Phone

[Martin56]

Yes Phone - we Engineers also use 1/64 - 1/32 - 1/16 - 1/8 - etc. but only for open tolerances.

 

Tighter tolerances of the above are expressed as a decimal for instance, 0.125" (1/8") +/- 0.001 eg. (or very often even tighter - 0.0002" (two tenths of a thou' - 0.005 mm or 5 microns for short)

Edited April 1, 2017 by Martin56