estebanana -> RE: Flamenco tap plate (Nov. 5 2023 4:40:14)
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ORIGINAL: Richard Jernigan Having worked as an engineer in the UK and Europe, the error was clear to me right away. Ironically, my first introduction to the metric system was contracting with the UK government. We in the USA persist with feet, inches, miles, and so on, while the originator of the Imperial system switched to metric in 1965. We were presented with a thick book containing columns of figures setting out the proper conversions between the U.S. system and metric. I just remembered a few conversion factors, and which direction to round if you landed on .x...x5. A U.S. inch is exactly 2.54 centimeters. With further irony, this article in the NY Times https://tinyurl.com/mrmtdtyz says they're going to allow food to be sold in Imperial pounds, ounces, etc. without any metric markings, now that they have Brexited. Can farthings and barleycorns be far behind? RNJ NYT paywall. Yes, crazy Brexiteers. The US supposedly isn’t on the metric system, but isn’t there a small section on most food labels where the metric equivalent is given in addition to ounces or pints? The base 12 building industry in the US makes much more sense to me than building metrically. It’s not abstract like base 10 metric measurements which are determined by a portion of the earth divided by 10. It’s based on the scale of the human body. In long lengths in guitar making, body length, bout width neck length I use inches because the numbers are lower and easier to remember- back length 19” lower bout width 14” and then for small components metric measurements, saddle width, nut width etc. metric measurements are more accurate and easier to divide. Should we put pounds & ounces labels on any guitars crossing into Brexitland?
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