1024 values in a range of 0..1023 is easy enough on two hands if you learn binary and have ten digits.
Napoleon had a go at introducing metric time, 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in a hour 100 seconds in a minute.Why has nobody invented a metric time system and calendar. how confusing is 60 secs, 60 mins, 24 hours, 30 days hath September etc etc. I'm sure it could be divided into multiples of ten. Greeves 246
There are only three countries in the world that haven't officially adopted the metric system: USA, Liberia and Myanmar (and Myanmar plans to switch to metric). Granted, lots of countries still use a bit of imperial in day-to-day use (as opposed to engineering/scientific use), but I'd be fairly confident that in the unlikely event that America went fully metric, market forces would kill off imperial pretty quickly.
Genuinely not hard to do, just weird at first when you're used to base10 (denary). Make sure you use a thumb for 1 as you'll need for odd numbers and your little finger's just not dextrous enough.My head’s hurting already.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_timeWhy has nobody invented a metric time system and calendar. how confusing is 60 secs, 60 mins, 24 hours, 30 days hath September etc etc. I'm sure it could be divided into multiples of ten. Greeves 246
There are only three countries in the world that haven't officially adopted the metric system: USA, Liberia and Myanmar (and Myanmar plans to switch to metric). Granted, lots of countries still use a bit of imperial in day-to-day use (as opposed to engineering/scientific use), but I'd be fairly confident that in the unlikely event that America went fully metric, market forces would kill off imperial pretty quickly.
why are you boys still in mph then
Inertia.
We were cutting some steel the other day and I asked one of the lads to measure the next piece, he reckoned it to be 55" 140 When I questioned it and looked he had read off the imperial scale and because he never understood the fractions call out the 140 which was the nearest mm`s.
Bob
Any time I make a mistake measuring something it's allways whilst using metric....
Feet and inches just make sense?
I know what 6 inches looks like but have trouble visualising 150 m&m
I seem to remember a film about an airliner that ran out of fuel over the Atlantic but successfully landed in Canada because the pilot had fuelled with lbs of fuel and not kgs as he had calculated. Greeves246
No danger of collecting a pension that One.