It was fifty years ago today (well, yesterday)
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:38:56 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 16/02/2021 17:31, S wrote:
On 16/02/2021 17:20, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:54:41 +0000, nightjar wrote:
On 16/02/2021 13:18, jon wrote:
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Yes I remember this was a pre-cursor to joining the Common Market,
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I don't. I recall it being sold as being easier to teach to children.
Apparently learning base 10 was easier than learning multiple base
systems.
Which also sounds like a crock. Were British schoolchildrenÂ*
peculiarly disadvantaged by having to learn Lsd - especially on top of
imperial ?
What is imperial?
pounds, shillings, and pence,
inches, feet, yards, poles, chains, furlongs and miles,
fluid ounces, pints, quarts and gallons ,
Ounces, pounds, stones, hundredweights and tons. Fahrenheit
temperatures.
And fractions not decimals
As opposed to this revolutionary French metric ****
The americans ''got to the moon'' using imperial linear measurements, but
they had trouble with volume tho'..7 UK pints to an american gallon.
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