On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:44:50 -0800 (PST), "
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On Jan 27, 9:34*pm, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:15:08 -0800 (PST), "



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On Jan 27, 8:24*pm, Ed Huntress wrote:

For those reasons, it's mostly a tempest in a teapot. There are some
good reasons to go all-metric, but there are few people who would even
notice.

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Ed Huntress

1960 Military requires semiconductors to be good for 125 degrees C.

Engineer writing acceptance test is sure that the lab has only
Fahrenheit thermometers so changes 125 C to 257 degrees F. *Acceptance
lab has only Centigrade thermometers. *Tech heats semiconductors to
257 C. *All semiconductors no longer work.

Dan

Stupidity will always find a way.

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Ed Huntress

Yeah but if the U.S. went to Centigrade there would be one less way.
And I would not remember that the melting point of copper is about
1100 degrees but not remember if that is C or F. Or that a oxy acet
flame is 6300 degrees either C or F.

It is just one more way the U.S. is shooting itself in the foot as far
as trade.


Dan

Well, I feel for you Dan. FWIW, the melting point of copper that you
remember is in C. And the O/A flame is in F. g

There is no good reason to try to remember both. If those things are
important to you, just get used to using and remembering one or the
other. If you're relating them to highly technical information, I'd
recommend C. Or K....damn that Kelvin...

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Ed Huntress