"have to stop and work out how many thruppences were in half a crown"
That's metric!
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Posted 10 years ago #
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"That's metric! "
I have trouble converting between metric and decimal.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Just had an argument with a very experienced colleague about how a bank might order its records had the era of duodecimal currency overlapped with the digital age.
We hummed and hawed over the data types before he won by announcing that he had actually managed accounts in guineas.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Iwrats:
I know of an insurance company* which maintained a manual reserve for some policies denominated in £sd that were still on the books. There was a
rigorously derivedfudged conversion factor to get it into decimal currency.The records for these policies were stored on microfiche in the basement and each year a junior would be sent down to retrieve them to check that nothing had changed since the previous valuation.
This practice went on until last year.
*not a Scotland-based insurer. Something so absurd would never happen here.
Posted 10 years ago # -
@winpig,
My cycling records are largely forced upon me by my speedo (A boardman 22 function). Three of these functions include an altimeter, kilometer (sic) and thermometer. I can either set all three metrically or all three imperially. Like you I don't work in fahrenheit and as miles and Kms are easier to convert than furlongs and metres metric wins and I record my rides in the French fashion.
In real life I generally measure long distances in miles and otherwise estimate imperially and measure metrically. I put this down to being taught estimation by my Dad while being formally educated in the metric era. Although it may just be that there are less syllables in ten feet than there is in 3 metres and estimation is all about saving time.
Posted 10 years ago # -
5,000 miles achieved. \o/ What goal should I set for the rest of the year?!?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Wow! I'm feeling pretty good about my commute now :)
Only been on Strava for a few weeks, but I either do three days (52 miles) or four days (70 miles) a week, so that means I'm probably around 3,000 miles for the year. That explains why I can't buy a new car as I can't justify that it only does 2,500 miles a year :(
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