Centimeters and Millimeters, Inches and - eh? 1

[BIS]

Hallo All,

Just wondering - can an inch be subdivided? Or do you just call it "half an inch", "one third of an inch" etc?

I was watching snooker, and the commentators on a specifically brilliant shot mentioned it was 'inch perfect' - but in reality it was much better than that.

 

[BIS]

SantaMufasa ,

Yes, I am fully aware of the term - but thanks for making sure. Incidentally - funny enough it seems that in 'British' it would be 'flogging a dead horse' - go figure...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating_a_dead_horse

 

[Grenage]

You're damn right, it's our bloody saying, too!

Crickey, spot of tea, etc.

Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.

 

[p5wizard]

But Yes.... in the metric system... Liquid Per Distance...

IMHO that is not true, it is country-specific.

Netherlands: "1 op X", e.g. "1 op 10" or "1 in 10", meaning: 1 liter consumed every 10 km (same idea as mpg)

Belgium: "N liter per 100km" e.g. "10l per 100km" (same consumption, differently stated).

p5

 

[p5wizard]

In printed circuit board design and manufacturing, inches are subdivided in 1000 mils

see

http://www.pcbdesignandfab.com/pcb_thikness.htm

a Unix fortune cookie:
Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term.
Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.

p5

 

[KenCunningham]

Now to the next question, do we measure the flogged or beaten (but in any case deceased) horse in 'hands', and if so, whose hand?

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[DansDadUK]

As for the 'pint', please do not suggest that a half-litre offers the same time-honoured satisfaction as that particular imperial quantity!

It is probably only draught measures that still use imperial units.
Nearly all bottled beers (in the UK), with the exception of some of those produced by Charles Wells, are sold in metric quantities (333, 500 or 666 milli-Litre).

I assume that the same is probably true of canned beer (don't know because I don't like the taste), and of lager (ditto - 'cos it doesn't appear to have much taste).

 

[mjldba]

Bottom line is ... beer, in any quantity and no matter the unit(s) of measure, can only be rented for a short while.

 

[Welshbird]

Old Welsh Proverb (roughly translated - and slightly paraphrased cos it seemed like a good idea) says

Beer has many ways out of a man. One is through the eyes.

I like that!

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[edfair]

I thought beer was water to which the brewer added tangible value and from which we extracted intangible value and discarded the carrier. Have I missed something?

 

[SantaMufasa]

MJL, I just gotta

that one.



Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[mjldba]

I am humbled Dave, my first star ... got to mark my calendar.

 

[Lunatic]

In printed circuit board design and manufacturing, inches are subdivided in 1000 mils

Designing circuit boards in inches... I don't know why but it just seems like trying to paint the Mona Lisa with fingerpaints and toothbrushes.

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[SantaMufasa]

MJLDBA, I'm glad you enjoyed this (your second)

on the MAI forum. Did you miss your first star on MAI, 10 Oct 06 12:34 on "thread1256-1287571"? Also, don't forget your 3 other

s in forum: "IBM: Informix Dynamic Server".

You're cooler than you thought!

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[mjldba]

Yup, missed the first MAI star so it must have been an after-the-fact drive-by star. The IDS forum is for work but I like to visit MAI & STC to relax & see what's going on in the global village.

 

[BIS]

These starts you talk of, they bring up an interesting point.

Looking at them from here they look purple, but if I put them through the trigonometric parallax calculator they appear to be far far away - is the distance now measured in light-years or parsec - and which one is metric?

Damn if I know - I think I will just hop outside, have a quick cold (no not Fahrenheit) beer (or two) and see if I can find myself a new horse.

Eh - carry on...

helper:

http://www.astronomynotes.com/starprop/s2.htm