06-11-2011, 05:48 PM
Wayne;
I had heard that you Canadians/Canadiens [for the 'French speakers] had a strange system going, but I didnt realise it was that bad. In fact I would describe it as just plain disturbing.
Apparently at this trade school where this guy worked for a while, he had to evaluate the kids work in inches unless he/she lived in the French speaking provinces, then he had to use metric.
I usually refer to feet and inches as imperial, but how do you guys refer to it?
We have the problem here in Australia, that when it comes to nuts and bolts we can easily get imperial sized bolts at hardware stores, but we can also get metric as well, so we have to be careful to use the right size and type. At work we carry both metric and imperial nuts because some bolts are metric and others imperial. Other fasteners are just the metric equivalents of the original imperial sizes and the same goes for timber and steel etc.
No wonder we cant get space craft to meet up if we have such screwed up means of measuring.
Mark
I had heard that you Canadians/Canadiens [for the 'French speakers] had a strange system going, but I didnt realise it was that bad. In fact I would describe it as just plain disturbing.
Apparently at this trade school where this guy worked for a while, he had to evaluate the kids work in inches unless he/she lived in the French speaking provinces, then he had to use metric.
I usually refer to feet and inches as imperial, but how do you guys refer to it?
We have the problem here in Australia, that when it comes to nuts and bolts we can easily get imperial sized bolts at hardware stores, but we can also get metric as well, so we have to be careful to use the right size and type. At work we carry both metric and imperial nuts because some bolts are metric and others imperial. Other fasteners are just the metric equivalents of the original imperial sizes and the same goes for timber and steel etc.
No wonder we cant get space craft to meet up if we have such screwed up means of measuring.
Mark
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