On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 10:09:08 AM UTC-5, rbowman wrote:
On 02/05/2018 04:42 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
It's surprising how much "secret" adoption of SI has gone on here.
Two-liter bottles of Coke. 750-ml bottles of wine. My husband
has both metric and English tools in his workshop. And of course
we use the same second as the rest of the world.

The 750 ml booze bottles couldn't possibly have anything to do with it
being 7 ml smaller than the fifths it replaced? A 'free' bottle for
every 108, what's not to like?

Metric tools are good. It's a lot easier to tell your significant other
to get the goddam 11 rather than the 7/16. Wimmen ain't good with fractions.

Hah. Very funny. I'll admit that the more mathematics
education I got, the worse my arithmetic skills became.
By the time I could solve differential equations, I was
using a calculator to balance my checkbook.

Cindy Hamilton