Why doesn't the USA adopt officially the metric unit?
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Hank49
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When I was at SHAPE I asked a Norwegian officer if there were major differences in Norwegians and Swedes that I should be aware of...Fortunately??
Cursing in different norwegian dialects is almost like different languages. Heck, you could even call a cop a "hæstkukk" (thats a not-so nice slang word for horse-penis) if youre from northern norway and get away with it (it was even tried in court!) because its dialect. If I do the same id prolly be locked up for the rest of this year..
He told me "Well, the Swedes have one thing we Norwegians will never have."
"What's that?" I asked (innocently)
He replied... "Good neighbors!"
Rick
When I was at SHAPE I asked a Norwegian officer if there were major differences in Norwegians and Swedes that I should be aware of...
He told me "Well, the Swedes have one thing we Norwegians will never have."
"What's that?" I asked (innocently)
He replied... "Good neighbors!"
Rick
:lol:
daniel f aleman
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What's the size of a township?
Charlie99
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Also called 6x6 SURVEY miles. Just to make things more confusing, the definition of a statute mile in the UK and the USA differ.6X6 (statute miles) of course.
Rick
What the UK calls a statute mile, we call the international mile. It's what you get if you take 1" = 2.54 cm as an exact conversion, and then stack 63,360 of that length end to end to make a mile.
Our imperial units are now defined in terms of metric/SI, rather than the other way around. It used to be that the legal conversion of length was 1 meter = 39.37". That has changed, and the newer definition is 1" = 2.54cm. While the reciprocal of 2.54 is close to 0.3937, it is just a tiny bit off, so that change in definition changed the length of the inch, foot and yard in the USA.
The survey inch, survey foot, survey yard, ....survey mile are based upon 1 meter = 39.37" exactly, which is about 2 parts per million different than the inch, foot, yard .... mile based upon 1" = 2.54.
Multiple systems of units get get very tricky when doing precise work, which is why most scientific work is in SI.
daniel f aleman
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I favor the Spanish league.
Tigerman
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We just love hating eachother (norwegians and swedes)...When I was at SHAPE I asked a Norwegian officer if there were major differences in Norwegians and Swedes that I should be aware of...
He told me "Well, the Swedes have one thing we Norwegians will never have."
"What's that?" I asked (innocently)
He replied... "Good neighbors!"
Rick
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