On Apr 27, 9:57*am, Metspitzer wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:08:17 -0700 (PDT), RickH

wrote:
On Apr 25, 7:46*pm, Terry wrote:
American's are so stupid that they reject a much easier way of doing
things. *

Systems of linear measurement that utilize dividing by 2 from a real-
world base unit (1 inch, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16...) have been around
longer than metric. *It tends to be more naturally ingrained for a
carpenter to work this way.

It is intuitive to cut things in half but......

How many times have you asked yourself in your life........how many
pints/quarts are in a gallon?

repeatedly and I have to dig into the tables in the dictionary to be
sure. Comes up a lot when trying to scale down commercial herbicide
amounts to a 2 1/2 gal back pack sprayer (that is the biggest sprayer
use).

Harry K