How Many Gills in a Cubic Dekameter?

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How Many Gills in a Cubic Dekameter? - by Kee Malesky/NPR Librarian/NPR.org


Richard

 

[hvacrsteve]

Change can be difficult, half of my work is in metric, about half in imperial units, I believe that if we have two languages, which we do, we can certainly have two number systems, most of the world uses metric.
It is simplier by far!
Old tricks die hard!

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

The prof in my water resources class one time asked to calculate a stream flow in cubic furlongs per fortnight.

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Even after 20 years I need to work my carefully through mass and heat transfer situations that involve mixed units, because pounds and kilograms are not the same units.

(Pounds are force; kilograms are mass.)

 

[Passepartout]

And Pi are round and cornbread are square.

Jim

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

And Pi are round and cornbread are square.

Jim

And even though Pi are round, one Pi is a semicircle. So it takes two Pi to equal one Pi.

 

[pjrose]

And even though Pi are round, one Pi is a semicircle. So it takes two Pi to equal one Pi.

Good one
We should revive the cat buttered bread thread