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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] conversion
Wow! Cool! Anyone else want 63 gallons of beer? <grin>
Carl
Mark Steed wrote:
>
> Hey Carl- Great stuff. Thanks. Maybe we can share a hogshead of beer sometime. Mark Steed
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>
> Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:44:07 -0700
>
> >FINALLY! Something I can contribute!
> >
> >500 feet equals-
> > 15,240 cm....
> > 83.339 fathoms....
> > 7.5755 chains, Gunter's....
> > 499.999 feet, US survey....
> > .7575 furlongs....
> > 6,000 inches....
> > 152.4 meters....
> > .1524 kilometers....
> > 152,400,000 microns....
> > .0825 miles, nautical/international....
> > .0945 miles, statute....
> > 152,400 millimeters....
> > 1.524 E 11 millimicrons....
> > 60,000,000 mils (?)....
> > 30.303 rods....
> > 25 ropes, british....
> > 166.66659 yards....
> >
> >And then, it's a definition of feet.
> > Standard foot, 12 inches....
> > US Survey foot, 12.000024 inches....
> > History says-
> > Athens foot, 12.44 inches....
> > Aegina foot, 12.36 inches....
> > Miletus foot, 12.52 inches....
> > Olympia foot, 12.64 inches....
> > Eturia foot, 12.44 inches....
> > Rome foot, 11.66 inches....
> > North foot, 13.19 inches....
> > England foot, 13.19 inches....
> > France foot, 12.79 inches....
> > Moscow foot, 13.17 inches;
> >
> >And then there are the off-the-wall comparisons, which I will only
> >mention here- angstrom units, arpent, astronomical units, aune, bolts,
> >cable, cable lengths, cape foot, cape rood, chains, cubits, digit,
> >digitus, ells, em/pica, hands, knots, leagues, li, lines, liniya, links,
> >miglio, milion, milliar, nail, paces, palmi, palms, parsecs, passus,
> >pes, picas, pie, points, ri, Sabbath's day journey, skiens, spans,
> >stadia, stadion, stadium, toise, tu, verst, and lastly, zoll.
> >
> >Carl
> >
> >
> >Carsten Standfuss wrote:
> >>
> >> Go to Psubs archive and search :
> >>
> >> " Useful units and metric Conservation Factors "
> >>
> >> or use:
> >>
> >> http://www.psubs.org/mlist/archive/0012/msg00046.html
> >>
> >> or search for metric.. all disscusions still there..
> >>
> >> My 2 cent - also a copy from the archive files:
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> "Hi Carsten here..
> >>
> >> In a dive deep of 150 meter (equal to 15000 cm or 15000000 mm or 0,15
> >> km)
> >> is a water pressure of 15 bar or 15000 mbar equal of a water load of 150
> >> t per square meter or 15000 Kg per square meter with a volume of 15000
> >> Liter or 150 m3 (freshwater) - thats metric .. it takes me 30 seconds to
> >> write it down - and I nee no calculator to do it..
> >>
> >> At 500 feet are how many fathoms ? miles ? inch ? Which pressure psi is
> >> equal to this deep ? or which water load in pound - and how long takes
> >> it for a person, which use normaly imperial units,
> >> to figure it out ? "
> >> _________________________________________
> >>
> >> But most important.. I have 10 fingers..
> >>
> >> regards Carsten
> >>
> >> DBACKIDS@aol.com schrieb:
> >> >
> >> > Even though the metric system is more simple, the standard system
> >> > actually has a very logical base. For instance: What is the lowest
> >> > number you can divide into halves, thirds, and quarters, with only
> >> > whole numbers? 12 (6, 4, 3) --not 10 (5, 3.3...., 2.5). This is the
> >> > basis for not only our inch/foot system, but also our timekeeping
> >> > itself. Seconds, minutes, hours, they are all based on twelve.
> >> > Of course, conversion within the metric system is much easier than
> >> > standard.
> >> > Just my cent and a half. (no, it wasn't a full two cents)
> >> >
> >> > David C
> >
> >--
> >"You delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in an answer
> >it gives to a question of yours, or the question it asks you, forcing
> >you to answer, like Thebes through the mouth of the Sphinx." -- Kublai
> >Khan
> >
>
>
>
--
"You delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in an answer
it gives to a question of yours, or the question it asks you, forcing
you to answer, like Thebes through the mouth of the Sphinx." -- Kublai
Khan