Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Sweets always used to be 4oz. Now 100g which is slightly less.
Yes, I do prefer metric for recipes to.
Most market stalls sell fruit & veg by the pound still IME.
KM vs Miles
- Thread starter Aston
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Yes, I do prefer metric for recipes to.
Most market stalls sell fruit & veg by the pound still IME.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
What about those of us that work in metric or imperial depending on the situation or have their own conversion methods?
For example...
People are weighed by stones & pounds, bikes (and almost everything else) are weighed by kg
Longer distances are measured in miles, shorter ones in metric. Easy conversions are that a metre is a yard and a bit while miles to km is to add 50 % and then 10% of the original mileage
500ml = a pint less the head of beer
For example...
People are weighed by stones & pounds, bikes (and almost everything else) are weighed by kg
Longer distances are measured in miles, shorter ones in metric. Easy conversions are that a metre is a yard and a bit while miles to km is to add 50 % and then 10% of the original mileage
500ml = a pint less the head of beer
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
Fiat 500 or Cadillac??
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I grew up with a mix, as most people in the UK did, but all the illogical numbers just confused me, I dropped imperial measurements as soon as I came here: it's so much simpler with metric.
classic33
Leg End Member
An Irish Mile(Also known as a country mile) is 6,720 feet or 2,240 yards.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Neither is illogical just fundamentally different approaches.
The metric system, officially known as the International System of Units (SI), builds on powers of ten - elegant, mathematical, and predictable.
The imperial system, rooted in medieval England, draws from human-scale references: feet based on actual feet, inches from thumb widths, and yards from the distance of a stride, mile derived from the Roman "mille passus" (thousand paces)
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Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
A benefit of having been brought up and receiving my education in imperial and sterling, before the age of the calculator, is that I have always found mental arithmetic very easy.
Strangely it never seemed difficult to work with when I knew nothing else.
Strangely it never seemed difficult to work with when I knew nothing else.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
classic33
Leg End Member
The two miles were/are different lengths, as were/are the measurements used to define the larger unit.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Punkawallah
Veteran
Some 1000 fathoms to the nautical mile, and about three Nautical miles to the League. :-)
It’s a question of usage. If you need to use them, you’ll know them.
