Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, India made the change in 1960. It really is so much easier to think in multiples of 10, especially as we have ten fingers and ten toes.....As I studied both systems in school, some fragments of equations remain in the memory for conversion! Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:29 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > If one really wants to "go metric" > you have to buy the tools: > metric rulers > metric thermometers > etc. > > Problem is so much of out "stuff" > is still "not metric" > so we need to be fluent in both > (actually three systems) > need fractions wrenches and taps drill bits > need decimal inches > and numbered drill bits and taps > in the machinist world > need metric wrenches taps and drill bits > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > On Aug 9, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > > > I totally agree that conversion doesn't work. You need to start thinking > in > > metric - just like with a foreign language. Don't translate - think in > the > > other language. Metric makes so much more sense. I use it whenever I > can - > > of course, in the darkroom and with photography, metric is the only > > language! I wish more of my cookbooks used metric, but so far, it's only > > the "foreign" ones that do. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >