I don't get it, why is metric better?

But you might see 350 ml cans.

Q. Johnny has 30 kilograms of apples. He puts them in 7 equal size piles. What is the weight of each pile? A. Each pile weighs 30/7 kilograms.

I'm told that all imperial units derive from the LRCH ;-)

Joe

But if she uses one of those shampoos or conditioners that builds body, won't that affect the accuracy?

On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 10:29:33 PM UTC-4, graham wrote: nder if you need a 23/64 or 3/8 wrench.

That must hurt.

Unquestionably Confused wrote in news:57a87fcd$0 $25154$c3e8da3$ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:

No moreso than tidal forces on the Earth affecting the Meter.

Puckdropper

On 08/08/2016 4:38 AM, Just Wondering wrote: ...

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It might affect a meter but it won't affect a metre:-) Graham

I have to say that I cannot really remember seeing a soda machine that dispenses any size glass bottle in 20+ years, maybe longer. Those and telephone booths.

I though a real number only had ONE decimal.... How many decimals do you typically see in a number?

How would you show that using equal whole numbers??? '~)

And yet the two zeros are redundant and equal nothing.

Implied and actual are two different things.

Both of your examples are equal even if you added a thousand zeros after the decimal point.

On 08/08/2016 8:41 AM, Leon wrote: ...

Yeah, they've pretty-much put Superman out of business...good thing there are no more bad guys around Gotham City these days...

Which comes out to approx 9.44 lbs per pile. What can we deduce, from this? Johnny probably ownes a truck! ;)

nb

On 08/08/2016 8:47 AM, Leon wrote: ...

While it's totally irrelevant to the discussion and a red-herring to have introduced it, there is such a thing as precision in engineering and scientific work, Leon, and the number of decimals presented in a result does represent the precision of the measurement or the calculation. In arithmetic computations using such a value then, the resulting final value also can have no more than that many significant digits despite there being more digits showing up.

Similar results bear in in manufacturing tolerances and so on...

Here, of course, the "1" in +1 is an integer and thus not subject to such limitations.

And you just proved my point. Your answer is incomplete. Each pile weighs 4 and 2/7 kilograms.

And FWIW you should have said he puts them in equal weigh piles. Size and weight are two different things.

dpb wrote in news:noa2mg$b72$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Bad guys is the reason there aren't telephone booths any longer. In the US, in this century, the only people using them were drug dealers and pimps, so the police started encouraging business owners to remove them.

I was surprised to see, watching the bike race in Rio, that phone booths are still common there. Dunno if that's because cell phones are less common (seems unlikely), or criminals don't use phone booths there, or simple inertia.

John

LOL.... Strongly, my eye doctor's waiting room has a soda machine, it must be there decoration, it has no power cord and is room temperature inside. ;~) And it is empty. Every thing else in the room is relatively modern, I doubt that the building is over 10 years old.