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05-08-2020 06:57 PM
@Desertdi wrote:I can barely convert fractions to decimals.....
That's what Google, Alexa, and Siri are for. At least in my house.
05-08-2020 07:07 PM
My nephew bought a new (to him) truck about 18 months ago. He kept saying he thought something was a little off with the speedomoter (yes, he should've noticed it when he test drove it, but he didn't). He'd be getting passed like mad on the highway, but the speedomoter would read in the high 90's or low 100's. Took about a month to figure out that the truck had come from Canada, and the speed was reading out in kilometers per hour, rather than miles. 20 minutes with his mechanic and it was switched to miles per hour.
05-08-2020 07:24 PM
I can visualize 3' but I have to think about it to know what a meter looks like. When I was a kid I learned in elementary school that the freezing point was 0 degrees Celsius and 32 degrees Fahrenheit and that the boiling point was 100 degrees Celsius and I have totally forgotten the conversion to Fahrenheit...makes ya feel dumb not knowing. Oh well.
05-08-2020 07:26 PM
05-08-2020 07:45 PM
I say yea us for not giving in!
I was happy and impressed that all that feeling against it, made that dumb idea go away.
Dont you wish we could do that for everything we didn't like?!
Though this might have been the one time the majority of our country agreed with each other. One for the record books for sure.
05-08-2020 08:37 PM
I've learned it about 3 times, but haven't used it. It's like my Spanish... Missed our May 2020 trip to Ireland. I was going to brush up on metric system again, especially for kilometers / miles. My row machine only measures meters, so I know around 1600 meters is a mile.
05-08-2020 08:39 PM
@FrostyBabe1 I'm laughing b/c that happened to me. I bought a Caddy that had just come off Lease in Conn. In the middle of 4-way intersection cars were zooming around me - my car's reading said I was going like 101 - what?
Took me a while to figure it out.
05-08-2020 08:45 PM
@germanshepherdlove wrote:I can visualize 3' but I have to think about it to know what a meter looks like. When I was a kid I learned in elementary school that the freezing point was 0 degrees Celsius and 32 degrees Fahrenheit and that the boiling point was 100 degrees Celsius and I have totally forgotten the conversion to Fahrenheit...makes ya feel dumb not knowing. Oh well.
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Celsius Poem:
0 Degrees is Freezing
10 is Not
20 Degrees is Pleasing
30 is Hot!
This is helpful when it comes to weather (in other countries).
05-08-2020 08:48 PM
Tried it, didn't like it, half way understood it at one time but don't any longer... And actually, instead of asking why we aren't on the metric system, I'd suggest asking why isn't the rest of the world on our system...?
05-08-2020 09:17 PM - edited 05-08-2020 09:18 PM
With Celsius it's not exactly accurate but a quick way to convert to Fahrenheit is to double it and add 30.
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