1 cubic metre ?

Another complication is how they're packed. If the feathers are compressed and formed into a shape with the same footprint as the lead - what then?

Or if the feathers are balanced - literally - against the lead?

Mary

I don't know if I'd call a part in 3 million per meter exceedingly small. I mean, with a bit of effort, it's not going to be that hard to build a balance that can take a 3 tons, with a sensitivity of 1g.

Then take two 3 ton weights, two lengths of rope, and let one rope be

No, the ropes need to be the same length or there is a weight difference anyway...just attach one weight at the end, and one 1, from the end...

That should read "1m" and not "1," of course.

indeed!

That was why I said probably...

Can you get tins of goat curry?

Locally it comes freshly cooked and hot - or at least I though it did ...

Mary

I meant to add that, but somehow missed it out.

IMO, exceedingly small to me means that I can't measure it without a couple of days effort (excluding phoning suppliers of specialist measurement equipment.)

Go on, make their day!

Mary

Take 5ml of aspirin solution and have a little lie down.

snip

And to return to D-I-Y: I was chuffed when I cut reliably cut off lengths of timber exceedingly close to +/- 0.25 mm of the required length. [Cutting off "n" exampled which are _close_ to each other is very easy : it's amazing, to me, how sensitive the human finger tips are when _feeling_ whether or not pieces of timber are aligned- no need to phone up specialist metrology suppliers - just watch Norm on Telly!]

Hang on, I used to be able to do this sort of stuff in my head .. < mutters "carry the four ^ 15 + the 7" >

.. erm ~ 4.76 × 10-15 f/f .. am I close ?

(Assuming a British Std hydrogen atom of course)

T i m

thanks to all who participated in this, what turned out to be, overly complicated thread...

I'm now confident I can lay the concrete floor with just 16 mixes, shouldn't take long with 3 of us.

LJ

"T i m" wrote | >25 angstroms per century in furlongs per fortnight | Hang on, I used to be able to do this sort of stuff in my head | .. < mutters "carry the four ^ 15 + the 7" >

| .. erm ~ 4.76 × 10-15 f/f .. am I close ? | (Assuming a British Std hydrogen atom of course)

Aren't we supposed to use new decimal harmonised hydrogen atoms now?

Owain

"It's easy to repeatably cut timber to length".

For _me_; it was a persoanl 'best' when I acquired the Triton table-saw thingy and aligned the blade/fence combination to _reliably_ cut timber to length. { I'd even learnt about kerf's ]

OK. I'm jealous ... :) BTW, with the panel cutting addition, the Triton table will cut (almost) any number of sticks.

I was referring to Norm, as that seems to be his general MO. :)

Wotchit, you'll be awarded a Nobel Prize.

Mary

Careful. Some here might think you mean 500 g of the stuff (or more !) and they'll never get up again.

Some days that seems like an okay solution ;)

Andrew