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WCDT: Dec 20th to 24th, 2021 (4681 to ????)
Tova:
As usual, I got confused for a moment then realised there must be a
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This is silly. But having said that:
--- Quote from: Roborat on 21 Dec 2021, 13:28 ---Wouldn't a cube have 8 elbows, not 4?
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4 elbows and 4 knees, surely.
Pilchard123:
If you triangulate the surface of a cube, you end up with 12 isosceles right triangles, each of which has two legs (assuming that an edge can be said to be made of a leg from both adjacent triangles). None of those legs have any bends in them - indeed, none can have any bend in them or else it would not be the leg of a triangle - so I would argue there are no knees or elbows, but at the apex of each triangle there is a pelvis.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 21 Dec 2021, 09:21 ---Most people I know who can work comfortably with both are either those from the UK/Canada who were in the right age range during the changeover, or US folks who work in the sciences.
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The UK at least has only changed to metric in a half-arsed way, retaining miles, for instance, and with common casual use of pounds or feet and inches.
But as a engineering student in the late 1960s I was made to work with both sets of units, sometimes together (e.g. an experimental setup with some Fahrenheit thermometers and some Centigrade (as we called Celsius at the time). In the electricity and magnetism part of the course, we had to buy new textbooks halfway through when they changed the units the course was taught in (which in this case also altered which units were considered fundamental as opposed to derived, and hence many of the basic equations).
hedgie:
I honestly do know Brits who talk Celcius when it’s cold and Farenheit when it’s hot. And of course, how does anyone even think about how many miles per litre their car gets? The pint (and I don’t mean the US one) is perfect where it is, though. Enough more than a half litre to be enough, and when a litre is just too much beer.
Farideh:
Being Dutch, I'm metric and Celsius all the way.
Re. the comic: d'awww!
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