I went to a Calgary Hi-Fi store a few years ago and during the conversation, the salesman mentioned that he'd lived in the UK as a boy when his Canadian mother married an Englishman. I asked him where he'd lived and saying that I'd probably never heard of the place, he said Capel St.Mary! Not only that, he'd been a playmate of my nephew! Graham
LOL! That's what I thought and was looking for some help. :-)
Yes but are there known isotopes?
I wager that you've never seen 1 lb of anything. When people say 1 lb, they don't mean precisely 1 lb, they actually mean
1 lb plus or minus some amount that might be miniscule but is never zero. In the real world, measuring out precisely 1 lb of anything is impossible. 0.9999999 lb. is not 1 lb, nor is 1.0000001 lb - although both are near enough for all practical purposes.
Actually, "+1" vs "+1.00" was tossed out as an abstraction with no context. But context IS relevant. I provided one context, apparently now you want to concoct a different context just for the sake of being contrary.
Someone said that the most successful countries used imperial.
FWIW some time ago a Russian math said that the imperial people were better at doing mental calculations than the metric folks. I wonder if working with fractions could have contributed to that.
On 08/08/2016 5:30 PM, John McCoy wrote: ...
It's not the coal that's the costly part, it's all the added regulatory burdens added specifically to price it out.
OTOH, while NG is currently in abundance my personal feeling is that is going to be temporary and go away much more quickly than is envisioned generally at the moment and "then you'll be sorry!" we've wasted so much of what is in the end far more valuable as a home heating fuel, feedstock for chemical processes, etc., etc., etc., than to waste on central-station generation.
Perhaps, but if so, that one hasn't made it to the list of tourist attractions... :) None of the locals I could find including curators at various museums, etc., had a clue as to the origin of the name.
On 08/08/2016 6:39 PM, Just Wondering wrote: ...
ACTUALLY, the '+1' _IS/WAS_ a counter; the followup '1.00' was a jest and you've turned it into a trolling opportunity...
On 08/08/2016 6:33 PM, gray_wolf wrote: ...
You can try
Actually you took of to left field with it. I simply stated that +1 was enough to get the message across.
You don't have to take someone's word for it, just look at the facts.
Ok,,,,
the number of worms + X
Well sure, you have a few things to remember. The metric folks are having to remember where the decimal point goes on nearly every number or suffix that number with a different resolution of meter when multiplying or dividing.
It is much easier to divide 1 by 3, 1/3,
than with the metric system where you end up with .333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 and that still is not as accurate of an answer as 1/3. ;~)
Metric is easier but not always infinitely as accurate.
And that was an easy one. Still easy for imperial, 8 divided by 7.
Answer, 1 & 1/7.
Metric answer, something like 1.142857142857..... And you need a calculator for that.
Using fractions in measurements insures absolute accuracy.
Real Coke is available in one of the local high-end grocery stores, here, too. Coke has reintroduced it, also, so you don't have to drink illegal Coke.
I see them (plastic) quite often.
...and credit cards.
Yeah, now a robot grabs the bottle from the rack and drops it into a basket.
Except 1 foot could be 11.8 inches or 12.2 inches, where 1.0 ft could only be as far off as something like 11.92 to 12.09 inches if no other tolerance is stated. 1 foot +.0.12"/-0 limits the part to 12.00 inches to 12.12 inches. Leave off the " and it can be up to 13.44 inches.
And it makes things a bit more tidy. :-) I recall reading somewhere that some draftsmen used mm and nothing else in building even big things like ships and locomotives to eliminate the error of a misplaced decimal point.
Cute! Quite an imagination he has.
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