The White House is saying that:
"We also have a long tradition of voluntary standards and our bilingual system of measurement is part of that tradition."
Do they mean that we also are very confused using a measurement system along a non-system?
Even engineers and scientists are confused, which results sometimes in disasters.
"We also have a long tradition of voluntary standards and our bilingual system of measurement is part of that tradition."
Do they mean that we also are very confused using a measurement system along a non-system?
Even engineers and scientists are confused, which results sometimes in disasters.
Hypothetical case
Let's assume that other countries do not use the solar calendar (e.g. lunar or other). It will be a real chaos in delivery times and we will need quite complicated conversion tools; to make it even more complicated, what about different definitions of time which we are all agreeing upon the same definition of the second. This is exactly what is happening not only going back and forth between the foot-pound non-system and the SI system, but within the same foot-pound collection of archaic measurements.
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ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. Today, some 12,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance safety, facilitate market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.
Just been watching a program on a UK channel 5 star,
about a “bedroom tax”. This was the first time I’d heard of this tax. The guy
paying the tax had to measure his room after reading in a British tabloid that
any room less than 71 ft2 was not subject to this tax. So he got out his
measuring tape (in feet) and proceeded to measure and came up with 7 feet 15
inches! Just goes to show that even people who use feet and inches have no idea
how many inches in a foot. This goes well with the US students measuring on a
ruler and assuming the 8th’s are decimals of an inch. A kid counts 5 inches and
4 eighths and comes up with 5.4 inches. Another reason to change to metric.
Mike Payne
USMA
Mike Payne
USMA