The Metric System
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Thanks Mike.
I know that the U.K. is metric and it always puzzles me that the currency isn't. I've never understood the Brittish currency system.
Funny that in the States it's the other way around with the currency being metric while dimmensions are in inches. -
When you say the british currency system isnt metric, are you refering to the fact we've not changed over to the euro yet?
I reckon british currency is pretty simple really, 100 pence=1 pound, but then it would make sense to me having lived with it for my entire life
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Remus, I was talking to friend of mine from Glasgow and he was trying to explain the different coins to me and I couldn't make heads or tails of it (no pun intended
).But we're going way off topic here guys.
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Gidon, the Brits changed to a system where 100 pence make a pound in the seventies. Until then 20 shillings made a pound and 12 pence made a shilling (a Guinea was 21 shillings to make it more precise - still used at snobbish auctions).
The fact that some Brits still use the "names" of the old currency does not mean they are not "metric" (if we can use this term here). It's like they - in everyday conversation - still use terms of the "imperial" system (like pounds and such).
Note however that Mike is from Ireland
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@gaieus said:
Note however that Mike is from Ireland
Does Ireland have a currency of it's own that's different from England?!
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Is that related?
@unknownuser said:
In 1999 the probe Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) is crashed on Mars!
Loockeed-Martin society transmited datas in Feet & Miles and Nasa controlers received it in metric system !
So just 96 kms difference and 125 000 000 dollars losted -
Yeah, I heard this story, too. It's just like importing dwg files
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Thanks for the guide Gidon!
It really helped.
Finally I can finish my models. -
Any time
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