OT: "leave more time for the bike" advertisements

Same with temperature ranges as mentioned in other post.

Really? 80KPH=50MPH. Multiply 80 x 8/5 and tell me what you get. My betting is that it's not 50.

Maths not a strong point is it?

It depends where you start form. Johnny Foreinger will see road signs in miles and will want to convert those to Km for his odometer. That is miles*8/5 = Km.

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Just like a mile, but shorter.

Whatever a mile looks like.

In what language?

That's exactly what's done in this country.

That's illegal.

Foreign, in other words.

You don't know what a mile looks like???

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

In numbers. Which increment once per kilometre travelled.

Of course it isn't.

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Oh, no... Not *foreign*.

It's just as well that the good old mile isn't foreign. I mean - imagine if, say, a bunch of Italians had been responsible for it.

No, wait, they were.

Anyway - what IS a mile? Is it a "Survey Mile" or an "International Mile"? To a Scandi, a "Mil" is ten km.

No, I don't. What DOES a mile look like? What colour is a mile?

From the outside, bits of black cable :-> Hugely boring.

Not to me - I have no idea what kind of clothing to associate with farenheit measurements, but I know if it's 23 degrees C I can wear a short-sleeved shirt. 20 means long sleeves, 10 means probably a jumper and zero means it's actually freezing. Anything 25 plus means break out the shorts :->

See above.

If you require that amount of precision, you can get thermometers with fractions of a centigrade. What practical difference is there between

60 and 62 Farenheit? Do you need that level of precision in a weather forecast?

Leaving aside centigrade for the moment (based as it is on physical properties of water - freezing point to boiling point) and mass (also based on physical properties of water - 1kg of water has the same mass as 1litre of water, and the same weight, 1 Newton at planet Earth gravity) -

Meaningful /to whom/? The metric system is meaningful to me beacause my and subsequent generations were taught it at school, and the units are quite logical. The fact the one kilometre is derived from dividing the distance between Paris and the North Pole by 10,000 is neither here nor there in practical use; however the fact that it increments in the base ten system /is/ - not base twelve (inches per foot) then base three (feet per yard) then whatever....

We got an allotment recently, which is marked out as 'two poles' in area. That's no use to me whatever, but the fact that it's 9mx36m certainly is. Even my dad, who retired last year, does all his DIY in millimetres. And no, we're not French. It's worse than that, we're from Yorkshire :->

Besides, it's arguable that the Imperial measurements were /more/ bureacratically derived than the metric system (which I would say is /scientifically/ derived), being brought in and out on the whims of royalty or landowners or whoever happened to have the biggest army.

Yes, and they're a model of inconsistency too. 1 US Gal = 4/5 UK Gal or something stupid.

Heh - it is friday, after all!

Cheers,

That'll be Arabic then, from whence our numerals came :->

Cheers,

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Johannes saying something like:

Your acceleration would have been considerably more leisurely than his, unles you drive a Diablo.

But quick enough to close the gap, that's what matters.

~5/8 mile.

Why is that then?

What I said in my post.

Mathematics.

Why?

Don't you like miles or something?

It is if you put it on a road sign. But they seem to have got away with it on the Channel Tunnel slip road off the M20.

Yes, foreign.

Some are more foreign than others.

It's long but colourless.

Not all vehicles have speedos in miles. All HGV tachos are in km and have been for as long as I've been driving.

Apparently not. Seen a couple of motorway signs with km on.