Re: The rye bread! Result and troubleshooting.

On 2024-08-16, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 2024-08-13, dsi1 <dsi100@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Rulers don't usually come in 10th of an inch. 16ths of an inch would be
more common. 2-13/16" would be close enough. I don't like the number
13/16 though.
The truth is that I would usually just convert the inches to mm and then
divide by whatever i.e., 216mm/3 = 72mm. Easy as pie.

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When I was in high school, (1961-1964), we were told that the U.S. would
soon be switching to metric. Soon, mechanical measurement, and nothing
else did.
Because of my major, I'm familiar with metric weight and volume
measurements, but distance is a mystery to me. 100 kilometers has
something to do with .62.

Do you have a dual speedometer on your car?  That might give you
a feel for the distances.  100 kilometers is about 62 miles.  Or
about 60 miles if you want to drop another sig fig.

A meter is about 3 inches more than a yard.
So, what's a foot? Nearly all home measurements here are in feet.

Really?  We almost always measure stuff in inches.  "Cut me a 116-inch
board, will you, dear?"  Of course, when we buy lumber, I always have
to do the arithmetic (which would be unnecessary if we used metric) to
spec the length of board in feet when we know what we want in inches.

A foot is about 30 centimeters.  Depending on what you're measuring
(and how often the rounding is repeated), that might be close enough.

So far, our "conversion to metric" has cost me one additional set of tools.
Plumbers haven't bought into it, so I still need a 1/2 inch wrench!
I was lied to, by those in charge, when I was a kid!

You were certainly misled.  Those who were advocating for metric
underestimated the stubbornness and ignorance of the American public.

--
Cindy Hamilton