Sure they’re not pulling your leg?
No need to bone on about it.
BBC, 'his right leg to not develop properly, leaving it more than an inch shorter than his left.
Thanks to the new treatment by experts at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital he has been able to gain 3cm.’
Obviously happy for the youngster, but had always glibly assumed that a cm was about half an inch, whereas I now know that 3cms = 1.118 inches..
I knew it wasn’t a 1/2 but did have to look up the measurement. Was kinda weird to switch btw the two
I’m sure you’ll get used to it…
But what I miss here are tape measures with imperial and metric because imperial is really handy if you want to divide a measurement by 3. Also because the numbers involved are smaller they’re easier to remember.
2, 4 and 6 as well, of course.
So ingenious.
Ya we brought American tapes that always have had both thankfully
We’ve got a set of US measuring cups for NYT recipes.
I, on the other hand, am binning my dual metrics tape measures. I bought another all metric yesterday.
Apart from the uselessness - to me - of Imp metrics, a tape with both has necessarily to reduce the legibility of either to get both sets of numbers on the tape.
Having a brilliant wheeze whilst loafing in a FR brico whilst on a battlefield tour, I bought 5 metric tape measures. The guy on the caisse was duly perplexed …
Back in UK I put them on eBay - snapped up and doubled my money.
The only thing about Imp that I think should be adopted by the metric system is a unit between 1cm and 1m. This I think of a ‘a metric foot’. This could be 20cms - 5 in 1m - or 25cms - 25% /1m.
It wouldn’t be an ‘official’ unit but something to make informally describing a length easier. So, something 65-75 -80 cms could be described as ‘about 3 m.ft’
After all, we already have metric tonnes.