rtbiscuit Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 i teach in mm, but am impressed that my year 11's often work in inches, when they want material. i encourage multi-numeric techniques. i love the way we're mean to be a decimal nation, yet we still sell copper pipes in inches for the guage, but metres for the length, we measure distance in miles and fuel economy in mpg, but buy our fuel in litres. i love our quirky nations use of measurments. does make me laugh, i remember hearing about a project with i think NASA building rocket parts in the uk. the brits were sending drawings in metric, but the yanks were building in imperial. apparently it was a monumental c0ck up that cost alot of moeny when they realsied the parts didn't fit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dene8 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 i teach in mm, but am impressed that my year 11's often work in inches, when they want material. i encourage multi-numeric techniques. i love the way we're mean to be a decimal nation, yet we still sell copper pipes in inches for the guage, but metres for the length, we measure distance in miles and fuel economy in mpg, but buy our fuel in litres. i love our quirky nations use of measurments. does make me laugh, i remember hearing about a project with i think NASA building rocket parts in the uk. the brits were sending drawings in metric, but the yanks were building in imperial. apparently it was a monumental c0ck up that cost alot of moeny when they realsied the parts didn't fit Can just see the yanks assembling a 1:25 scale replica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanski Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 i teach in mm, but am impressed that my year 11's often work in inches, when they want material. i encourage multi-numeric techniques. i love the way we're mean to be a decimal nation, yet we still sell copper pipes in inches for the guage, but metres for the length, we measure distance in miles and fuel economy in mpg, but buy our fuel in litres. i love our quirky nations use of measurments. does make me laugh, i remember hearing about a project with i think NASA building rocket parts in the uk. the brits were sending drawings in metric, but the yanks were building in imperial. apparently it was a monumental c0ck up that cost alot of moeny when they realsied the parts didn't fit Can just see the yanks assembling a 1:25 scale replica Unless its from Texus where everything is so much bigger than here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dene8 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Unless its from Texus where everything is so much bigger than here! Especially the Texans themselves…… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich5259 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 I think it was 25:1 as our lot used mm - so ok for the texans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shieldsie Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 More to add. Due to the Zed snowed in at my workplace for 5 days, I`ve been using my Dads Qashqai. Yesterday I used his satnav and found it amusing has on screen it was showing distance in feet but the voice was telling me in yards Anything would have been amusing after spending 3 hours travelling 32 miles but it was well worth the time it was the trip to collect my nes SCORPION exhaust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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