Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The uk went metric in 1968. I wasted some time trying to think of hybrid units with unfeasibly high or low values for commonly experienced quantities (the centimetre is not a genuine SI unit but the mm is too small and meter too big for many people to find useful in their work) My favourite is Newton per Acre for pressure. Frank Sent from my iPad On 10 Aug 2010, at 14:23, John Edwin Mason <profmason at yahoo.com> wrote: > Says Lawrence: > >> Metric, shmetric. > > I agree. > > For years, I've been pressing motor sports sanctioning bodies to measure > speed in furlongs per fortnight (fpf). > > It would yield impressively high numbers. > > --John > > ****************************** > John Edwin Mason, Photography: > http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com > Charlottesville and Cape Town > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information