Search
Admin
Categories
Archives
Articles & Info
-
Random Archive Posts
- Fiction: Rescued For Life
- Rec'ing on...Olympic Gymnastics Scoring
- TTSCC - Beyond John's Army
- Still Dancing
- Great Lena Headey Interview
- Basketball Delayed Foul Suggestion
- The Toughest Fish on Earth… and in Space (via New Scientist)
- 2009 WNBA - Is KT Wrong For Chicago?
- A Judgement on the Gay Marriage Thing
- I Want a DVR to Die For
The Mercantile
Linkage
Tag Archives: shortcut
Some Practical Consequences of Going Metric
My recent entry: President Obama, Give Us a Yard and We’ll Take a Meter has generated a fair amount of email (thank you, by the way). Among the comments were concerns about various aspects of doing the conversion, specifically about all that math to go from one system to another. Then there were comments about the realities of conversion. Let me try to address both of those items.
Posted in Gov't and Politics
Tagged area, cm, conversion, cooking, gram, inch-pound, kg, kilogram, kilometer, km, length, mail, mass, math, meter, metric, metrication, metrification, mile, odometer, paper, publishing, shortcut, speed, transition, weight
1 Comment


