September 14, 2003, 18:56
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Why some people in the US can't understand the metric system.
I am correcting a worksheet for my sister (who is learning to be a teacher). It has two tables for the metric system on it, one on each side.
Table on side 1:
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Prefix Value x Base Unit Meters Symbol Liters Symbol Grams Symbol
Tera - 1,000,000,000,000 Tm TL Tg
Giga - 1,000,000,000 Gm GL Gg
Mega - 1,000,000 Mm ML Mg
Kilo - 1,000 Km KL Kg
Hecto - 100 Hm HL Hg
Deka - 10 Dkm DkL Dkg
Base Unit - 1 m L g
deci - 1/10 dm dL dg
centi - 1/100 cm cL cg
milli - 1/1,000 mm mL mg
micro - 1/1,000,000 mcm mcL mcg
nano - 1/1,000,000,000 nm nL ng |
Table on side 2:
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Tera- Giga- Mega- Kilo- Hecto- Deka- Base unit deci- centi- milli- Micro- nano-
Tm Gm Mm Km Hm Dkm m dm cm mm mcm nm
0.000001 0.00001 0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1000 10000 100000 |
Anyone else see problems with these tables?
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September 14, 2003, 18:59
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The bottom row of the bottom table. Duh.
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September 14, 2003, 19:00
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decameter does not equatl 10 kilometers/kiloliters/kilograms and a micrometer does not equal 1/1,000,000 of a centimeter/centileter/centigram...
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September 14, 2003, 19:01
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September 14, 2003, 20:08
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So, why can't some people in the US understand the metric system?
This whole thread seems quite pointless.. again.. for the 5th time.. ad nauseum... etc etc...
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September 14, 2003, 20:16
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For the record, deci and centi are not metric.
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September 14, 2003, 20:21
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Isn't there something smaller than nano ? I think I remember "pico" or something, but I'm unable to tell how much it is.
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September 14, 2003, 20:22
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Because the teachers mess up and make worksheets wrong. People can't learn if they are taught wrong.
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September 14, 2003, 20:26
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Yes, pico is smaller. Femto is even smaller.
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September 14, 2003, 20:29
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Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
Femto is even smaller.
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Thanks. I didn't know at all about this one.
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September 14, 2003, 20:54
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metric system sux  
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September 14, 2003, 20:56
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What's 49 inches in miles? Or 32 furlongs in fathoms? 16 rods to the bar?
(I think all of those are real units ...the point: standardisation in a system of measurement is good.)
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September 14, 2003, 20:56
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Why is the US system called "Standard", when it isnt? The standard system is metric, and the US system isn't standard.
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September 14, 2003, 20:58
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it's Standard in the US
Well, Standard is the most standard (  ) name for it. There's English, Standard, Customary, and US or American can be pinned on to any one of those...hell, we can't even name our own system, much less learn metric
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September 14, 2003, 21:00
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the metric system is a communist plot to undermine the U.S.
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September 14, 2003, 21:09
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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Why is the US system called "Standard", when it isnt? The standard system is metric, and the US system isn't standard.
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Everyone calls the US system (inches and crap) the "imperial system" where I'm from. 
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September 14, 2003, 21:15
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Either "imperial" or "old" system are the two terms I've heard used.
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September 14, 2003, 21:36
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Its not that we can't.
We just choose not to. :P
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September 14, 2003, 21:40
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Originally posted by OzzyKP
Its not that we can't.
We just choose not to. :P
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Didn't that cost you many million dollars?
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In the United States, men measure their cocks by inches.
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Originally posted by MrFun
In the United States, men measure their cocks by inches.
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I suppose centimeters would be more impressive for this use. Instead of saying 6 one could say 15 
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September 14, 2003, 22:02
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Originally posted by OzzyKP
I suppose centimeters would be more impressive for this use. Instead of saying 6 one could say 15
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Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
Yes, pico is smaller. Femto is even smaller.
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Both are huge compared to atto-.
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September 15, 2003, 00:23
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Originally posted by Dissident
metric system sux
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The English System sucks.
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September 15, 2003, 00:27
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USA refuses to adopt metric system because it is French
We prefer the system of our British Fathers 
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September 15, 2003, 00:28
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The English system has the best of both worlds. We learn and calculate everything in metric and then express it all in imperial so that our American friends don't get confused whilst Europeans do..
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September 15, 2003, 00:31
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I like metric, but in the end it really doesn't matter.
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September 15, 2003, 00:35
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Originally posted by MrFun
In the United States, men measure their cocks by inches.
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Speak for yourself
Some of us measure ours in YARDS
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September 15, 2003, 03:06
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Originally posted by mrmitchell
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What's 49 inches in miles? Or 32 furlongs in fathoms? 16 rods to the bar?
(I think all of those are real units ...the point: standardisation in a system of measurement is good.)
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What moron would measure something 49 inches long in miles?
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September 15, 2003, 03:25
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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Why is the US system called "Standard", when it isnt? The standard system is metric, and the US system isn't standard.
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A'course it's standard! It's what we use, innit? Metric is fer them furrinners.
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