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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 11, 2016 at 10:59 am
(July 11, 2016 at 10:43 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (July 11, 2016 at 10:20 am)pocaracas Wrote: Sure there is... and we had to learn it in school.
km - kilometer = 1000m
hm - hectometer = 100m
dam - decameter = 10m
m - Meter = 1m
dm - decimeter = 0.1 m
cm - centimeter = 0.01m
mm - millimeter = 0.001m
What I mean is a standard measurement that's longer than a decameter (which in Imperial is a little less than 4 inches) but shorter than a meter. Because meters are set up on a base-10 system, it's really strange and inconvenient to divide a meter by 3, so the closest measurement that would work would, I guess, be a quarter meter, 25cm, or about 9.8 inches. Why would ... divide by 3?! that's just to come close to your well known and intuitive "foot".
My intuitive is the 20cm, which is roughly a palm from the tip of the pinkie finger to the tip of the thumb, well stretched out.
(July 11, 2016 at 10:43 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Quote:Why is that relevant?
Already stated: because of my job.
I fully grant this is as much a personal preference thing as it is a convenience thing.
Also, having a base-12 measurement system also means that people who work in fields that utilize measurements get really really really good at their 3, 4, 6 and 12 multiplication tables, so there's something to be said for that system making some segments of the population slight more math-literate 
yeah... we get to divide by 2... 5... and that's enough! anything else, forces the usage of decimal points... there's a segment of the population that gets good at using those, though... and using approximations 1/3 = 0.33. 1/4 = 0.25, 1/5 = 0.2, 1/6 = 0.166, 1/8 = 0.125,
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 11, 2016 at 11:59 am
It took us three hours to buy two bags of groceries last night, because we don't know the area, Luckie has a tendency to drive off before I've gotten the map loaded, and she also doesn't like taking direction on the road. For example: "turn around here, we're going the wrong way," got completely ignored... right up until the point that we were driving up to the gates of an air force base, whereupon a nice man with a gun let us do a u-turn in their parking lot.
We had, indeed, been going in the complete opposite direction.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 12, 2016 at 4:01 am
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 12, 2016 at 4:06 am
(July 11, 2016 at 11:59 am)Esquilax Wrote: It took us three hours to buy two bags of groceries last night, because we don't know the area, Luckie has a tendency to drive off before I've gotten the map loaded, and she also doesn't like taking direction on the road.
If I were the person to espouse gender stereotypes, I'd say from your description Luckie is clearly the man in the relationship
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 12, 2016 at 4:06 am
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Wooot. An article I wrote just appeared in a major German science mag and even made a mention on the cover!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 12, 2016 at 4:07 am
(July 12, 2016 at 4:06 am)Alex K Wrote: Wooot. An article I wrote just appeared in a major German science mag and even made a mention on the cover!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 12, 2016 at 4:20 am
Wow! Way to go Alex 
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 12, 2016 at 4:25 am
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 12, 2016 at 4:32 am
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 12, 2016 at 4:59 am
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