i much prefer metric in everything apart from miles and miles per hour

Since I lived so long time in USA I am kinda bi, I prefer metric but I have a good sense of what a pound is or gallon
onces, mph etc.

I dont have a problem with inches for some things, things like snow etc always sound better in inches than cm.

5cm of snow versus 2 inches etc.

I think theres no one measurement that caters for every scenario so were always going to have to use a number of measurements. Maybe well go completely metric eventually, but not for a generation or two yet I think.

Quote from: MongooseI was submitting images for my journal article the other day and was confronted with "images should be 8.85cm across at 600dpi".

I acknowledge that the calculation is hardly difficult, but it seems to me that a lot of confusion would be saved if they just said 3.5 inches, or 250dpcm.

Strange mix but i never heard dpcm used only heard of dpi, sorta used as a standard I believe and if it is in inch or centimeters doesnt really matter ?

Quote from: knightyiirc, didnt an american mission to send a sattalite to mars go wrong when it crashed into the surface, because the americans worked in inches and feet, but they outsourced most of the programing to india... where they worked in metric ?

They also told a sat to look for mount Everest on Earth. The sat finished searching then, logically, turned around and began searching space. They had told it the height in metres but it was dealing in miles.

Quote from: CeathreamhnanThe O ring problem on the Shuttle take-off explosion was blamed on that I thought.
 

Pretty sure the O ring was a cold issue, it got chilled during the night and let hot gasses past while warming up.

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Quote from: MongooseI was submitting images for my journal article the other day and was confronted with "images should be 8.85cm across at 600dpi".

I acknowledge that the calculation is hardly difficult, but it seems to me that a lot of confusion would be saved if they just said 3.5 inches, or 250dpcm.

Strange mix but i never heard dpcm used only heard of dpi, sorta used as a standard I believe and if it is in inch or centimeters doesnt really matter ?

no Ive never heard of dpcm being used either, but I cant comprehend the supposed benefit of using cm for length and dpi for resolution.

I am essentially bilingual when it comes to distance measurements, but I stick to metric or imperial for any given sentance!

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Quote from: MongooseI was submitting images for my journal article the other day and was confronted with "images should be 8.85cm across at 600dpi".

I acknowledge that the calculation is hardly difficult, but it seems to me that a lot of confusion would be saved if they just said 3.5 inches, or 250dpcm.

Strange mix but i never heard dpcm used only heard of dpi, sorta used as a standard I believe and if it is in inch or centimeters doesnt really matter ?

no Ive never heard of dpcm being used either, but I cant comprehend the supposed benefit of using cm for length and dpi for resolution.

I am essentially bilingual when it comes to distance measurements, but I stick to metric or imperial for any given sentance!

Screens are still in inches maybe that is why ? no i dont se any benifit but I think most metric countries just look at  it as DPI (not thinking of it as having anything with

inches to do) so it doesnt seem to matter.

When they defined everything should be metric, they carried on making car tyres in inches because its the established unit of measurement for that.  The only company that I can think of off-hand that made Metric tyres was Rover, and I remember getting tyres put on my Metro Van at work, about 3 times the price of the Imperial Measurements!

We still use miles and yards in the UK from a cost issue.  Anyone want to try and put a figure on what it would cost to re-sign the entire country?  Never mind that the government would ultimately have to cough up the cash for converting cars to show the major speed markings in kph rather then mph.  Same reason theyll never change us to driving on the left (never mind the safety issues involved with that).  

I think its more down to a practical point of view.  I can convert approximately in my head, but I know my parents cant (My Brother-in-law is the same, and he designs high precision machine tools!).  

Its actually safer to drive on the left, some studies have shown. Something to do with which eye tends to be dominant in most people.

Im on a train just now travelling between Sweden and Denmark; the two countries travel on different sides of the railway so they have to swap at Malmo. Imagine if you had to do that while driving

Döppel-posting :x  

I was in Sweden over Christmas. Nice isnt it.

Its Baltic!

Quote from: SamI was in Sweden over Christmas. Nice isnt it.