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WCDT Jan 17th - Jan 21st (4701-4705)
_Islanio:
Same here. No problem with inches, feet, miles, pounds, and I grew up using metric. Ounces, gallons, are way less intuitive for me. Fahrenheit is a different story, since it not only have a different value for each degree, but also a different reference point (the freezing temperature of water, 0°C and 32°F). This brings an extra factor to the calculation, so it's not just to multiply by something. Do you guys get me?
hedgie:
I can work well enough in either system as long as I don’t have to convert. I know what hot/cold, near/far, light/heavy are in both, so that’s enough for daily needs.
cesium133:
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Ooh this is bringing back memories of having to figure out what was meant by "miles", out of 12 different possibilities.
Only around 8 kilometers difference (thats...5... miles? ) - hours of Funfun funfunfunfun! :grumpypuss:
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I read the quoted part of your post out loud for whatever reason and it finally hit me why "Wassat" was bugging me so much. I actually do say 'wassat' when saying 'what's that' out loud, though there is a hint of a th in there.
Whenever I do km/mi conversions I have reference numbers I go by. If it's miles to km, I just take 60% of the miles (it's not the 0.62 needed for an accurate number, but it's close enough). For km to miles, I know that 5km is a tad over 3mi, so I go up from there. So 10km=6mi, 50km=30mi, etc. Even in four digit distances, it's only a 20mi deviation per 1000km, so for ballparking it works out fine.
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I do something similar for inches to centimeters; 65in = 165cm.
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Oddly enough, speeds, distances, and temps have never been any issue for me, but weights and especially liquid I have never been able to fully internalize. From lbs to kg is OK (mostly because we also have the 500-g pound, close enough to the lbs) but anything on ounces/gallons to mL is a disaster and I've given up on it.
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I learned recently that Alton Brown lied when he said the mnemonic “A pint is a pound, the world around.” A pound is 454 grams. A pint (in the United States, anyway) is 16 fluid ounces, which, if a fluid ounce is an ounce, should thus be 454 mL. But a fluid ounce is not an ounce. Which means that a pint is actually 473 mL. :psyduck: It gets even weirder when you consider that the FDA actually uses its own definition of the fluid ounce, which is exactly 30 mL.
hedgie:
I'm just glad that my local serves 20oz pints.
Perfectly Reasonable:
Jeph and babies. Dora and 'poo-larvae'.
Seeing this for the first time, I'd think Sam was a boy and Emmett was a girl.
( you wanna see that spray or not )
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