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From: "George Lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Fuel - Weights and Measures
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:53:44 +1000
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Thanks Ernest - I'm glad someone agrees with me, I was starting to feel on 
my own with this opinion.
George ( down under)

> George Lendich wrote:
>
>> Bob,
>> Interesting to say the least - why do I not feel fully satisfied ?
>> However your right, it may all be in the records somewhere!
>> I will research it.
>> BTW I've never fully accepted Metric - still work mostly in inches. I can 
>> understand those who want simplicity, but for my own point of view 
>> everything seems to have evolved in12's - degrees, time etc.
>
>
> 12 is a perfect basis for measurements to be used by normal people without 
> access to calculators, and only a rudimentary knowledge of math.  It is 
> evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4.  Half a foot, third of a foot, and 
> quarter of a foot...which is about as accurate as you need for most 
> business transactions at a medieval fair.  Regardless of its many 
> benefits, metric is an engineering system that takes more neurons to use.
>
>> I found it interesting to see how some measurements evolved i.e a foot 
>> was someone's foot ( perhaps the King's) a yard is taken from the 
>> shoulder joint to the finger tips - from what I've read etc. etc. I have 
>> just found the variation of the gallon annoying from the Aviation point 
>> of view - then one starts to wonder WHY?
>
> You are correct on both the foot and the yard.  The inch was derived from 
> one of the king's thumb joints.  Eventually someone cast a chunk of metal, 
> and said we'll use this from now on, 'cause they got tired of having to 
> remeasure the kingdom every time there was an assasination.  In most 
> instances, it was a bureaucrat hidden in the basement of a corner of the 
> castle, and the casting form was made from scrap material laying around . 
> . . which is a hyperbolic way of saying, it was a rather arbitrary 
> process.
>
>> George ( down under)
>>
>
>
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