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Which Country's  are Metric?

September 3rd 2002, 06:22 PM
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Kat
Peasant She/Her Canada
We can out-drink most Americans! 
Canada is Metric, but that came about in the late 70's I believe, I could be wrong, though about the date. >^..^<
September 3rd 2002, 06:23 PM
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September 3rd 2002, 06:47 PM
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Ya, the US is too proud of itself, otherwise we'd have adapted it...seeing as how its by far superior and is used anyway in laboratories and stuff...
September 3rd 2002, 08:34 PM
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Tyrsis
Peasant She/Her Russia
 
Russia is
September 3rd 2002, 08:44 PM
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Noa
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: Canada is Metric, but that came about in the late 70's I believe, I could be wrong, though about the date.   >^..^<

What do you mean by metric?! that the people mesure things by metres?
September 3rd 2002, 09:00 PM
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WC
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Destroying noobs since 1999. 
Metric is a system of measurement, it uses meters and such. Pretty much every country besides USA uses metric.

--WC
September 3rd 2002, 10:13 PM
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TrayC
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: Metric is a system of measurement, it uses meters and such. Pretty much every country besides USA uses metric.

: --WC

That's cause we're egostical idiots that think it's easier to convert inches to feet to yards to miles than to change.
September 3rd 2002, 10:28 PM
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Phoenix
Peasant He/Him Norway
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All European countries at least... except England, I believe.
September 3rd 2002, 11:25 PM
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: Ya, the US is too proud of itself, otherwise we'd have adapted it...seeing as how its by far superior and is used anyway in laboratories and stuff...

^^^^^^^^^^

eh?? I take this as meaning that in labs you guys use the imperial system??

As far as I'm concerned, they use the SI system, which is mostly metric..

New Zealand uses the metric system.
September 4th 2002, 01:40 AM
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Paul
Peasant He/Him United States
 
: : Ya, the US is too proud of itself, otherwise we'd have adapted it...seeing as how its by far superior and is used anyway in laboratories and stuff...

: ^^^^^^^^^^

: eh?? I take this as meaning that in labs you guys use the imperial system??

: As far as I'm concerned, they use the SI system, which is mostly metric..

: New Zealand uses the metric system.

I'm pretty sure that OkalyDDude meant "We're too proud to switch even though metric is better, as evidenced by the fact that even our labs use it."
September 4th 2002, 07:12 AM
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Noa
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: : Metric is a system of measurement, it uses meters and such. Pretty much every country besides USA uses metric.

: : --WC

: That's cause we're egostical idiots that think it's easier to convert inches to feet to yards to miles than to change.

Ah, and I'm still trying to figure out that inch thingy! why must you guys be so different!? anyways Israel is metric too I guess
September 4th 2002, 07:18 AM
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redink1
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: Ah, and I'm still trying to figure out that inch thingy! why must you guys be so different!? anyways Israel is metric too I guess

2.5 cm is about an inch.

There are 12 inches in a foot.

There are 5128 feet in a mile.

There are 3 feet in a yard.

A yard is about a meter.

See, it isn't that hard

Don't ask me how my tbsp are in a tBsp or quarts in a gallon or whatever... I have never understood imperial fluid measurements at all.
September 4th 2002, 07:34 AM
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: :  Ah, and I'm still trying to figure out that inch thingy! why must you guys be so different!? anyways Israel is metric too I guess

: 2.5 cm is about an inch.

: There are 12 inches in a foot.

: There are 5128 feet in a mile.

: There are 3 feet in a yard.

: A yard is about a meter.

: See, it isn't that hard

: Don't ask me how my tbsp are in a tBsp or quarts in a gallon or whatever... I have never understood imperial fluid measurements at all.

8 ounces in a cup

2 cups in a pint

2 pints in a quart

4 quarts in a gallon

10 gallons in a blodget

..ok I made up blodget

The whole pounds thing is silly too. 2000 pounds equal a ton, but thats all I know.

September 4th 2002, 07:38 AM
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Noa
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Hmm... I did wonder about pounds, sometimes people say that their weight is something like 150 pounds, and me, being used to kilograms... well it's just scary...

But I guess everyday you learn some new things
September 4th 2002, 08:07 AM
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: Hmm... I did wonder about pounds, sometimes people say that their weight is something like 150 pounds, and me, being used to kilograms... well it's just scary...

: But I guess everyday you learn some new things

mmm... inches, blahhh, use these:

2.5 cm = 1 inch, yep but.

(mm) 10 millimeter = 1 centimeter

(cm) 10 centimeter = 1 decimeter

(dm) 10 decimeter = 1 meter

(M) 10 Meter = 1 decameter

(dam) 10 decameter = 1 hectometer

(hm) 10 hectometer = 1 kilometer

(km) 1000 kilometer = 1 megameter

we have smaller...

100 micrometer = 1 mm ( centimeter )

100 nanometer = 1 m ( It looks like a m, its a strange thing )

we've got smaller, but I dont know how we call them

September 4th 2002, 08:29 AM
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Morpheus
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: All European countries at least... except England, I believe.

Yup, we use a bit o' both... Why? Coz we're special and James Bond is my dad...
September 4th 2002, 10:27 AM
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Phoenix
Peasant He/Him Norway
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: : Hmm... I did wonder about pounds, sometimes people say that their weight is something like 150 pounds, and me, being used to kilograms... well it's just scary...

: : But I guess everyday you learn some new things

: mmm... inches, blahhh, use these:

: 2.5 cm = 1 inch, yep but.

: (mm) 10 millimeter = 1 centimeter

: (cm) 10 centimeter = 1 decimeter

: (dm) 10 decimeter = 1 meter

: (M) 10 Meter = 1 decameter

It's dekameter...

: (dam) 10 decameter = 1 hectometer

: (hm) 10 hectometer = 1 kilometer

: (km) 1000 kilometer = 1 megameter

Megameter isn't a valid measure I believe.

: we have smaller...

: 100 micrometer = 1 mm ( centimeter )

Nope, 1000 micrometer = 1 mm, and it's millimeter, not centimeter.

: 100 nanometer = 1 m ( It looks like a m, its a strange thing )

No, 1000 nanometer = 1 µm. ( micrometer ) and that strange thing doesn't look much like an m to me.. that is (µ != m)

: we've got smaller, but I dont know how we call them

And they are rarely used.. however, they are

1000 picometer = 1 nanometer

1000 femtometer = 1 picometer

1000 attometer = 1 femtometer

1000 zeptometer = 1 attometer

1000 yoctometer = 1 zeptometer

and if anyone would need smaller measures, they are mad.. a human hair is about 60000 nanometer in width. Just imagine then how wide 1 yoctometer is.
September 4th 2002, 10:32 AM
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TrayC
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: : All European countries at least... except England, I believe.

: Yup, we use a bit o' both... Why? Coz we're special and James Bond is my dad...

If I'm not mistaken the US got it's system of measurement from English kings. An inch is the distance between two knuckles of a finger, foot is a man's foot, and yard is either one stride or the distance from the tip of the nose to the tip of the fingers on an outstretched arm. I don't know where mile came from. Converting American measurements (like how beter to say a large number of inches) is like converting thousands of seconds into days, hours, and minutes. It sucks. Metric is so much beter and everyone knows it.
September 4th 2002, 10:39 AM
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Phoenix
Peasant He/Him Norway
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: : : All European countries at least... except England, I believe.

: : Yup, we use a bit o' both... Why? Coz we're special and James Bond is my dad...

: If I'm not mistaken the US got it's system of measurement from English kings. An inch is the distance between two knuckles of a finger, foot is a man's foot, and yard is either one stride or the distance from the tip of the nose to the tip of the fingers on an outstretched arm. I don't know where mile came from. Converting American measurements (like how beter to say a large number of inches) is like converting thousands of seconds into days, hours, and minutes. It sucks. Metric is so much beter and everyone knows it.

And most important of all, it's 10 based!

Which means all measures leap over to the next one in 10/100/1000, like 1000 meter in one kilometer, and 100 centimeter in one meter and 10 millimeter in one centimeter.

Unlike the imperial system, where conversions seems to make no sense..

Another thing nice to know is that 1 dm³ is one litre, and one litre of water is 1 kg.
September 4th 2002, 10:44 AM
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Phoenix
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: : : : All European countries at least... except England, I believe.

: : : Yup, we use a bit o' both... Why? Coz we're special and James Bond is my dad...

: : If I'm not mistaken the US got it's system of measurement from English kings. An inch is the distance between two knuckles of a finger, foot is a man's foot, and yard is either one stride or the distance from the tip of the nose to the tip of the fingers on an outstretched arm. I don't know where mile came from. Converting American measurements (like how beter to say a large number of inches) is like converting thousands of seconds into days, hours, and minutes. It sucks. Metric is so much beter and everyone knows it.

: And most important of all, it's 10 based!

: Which means all measures leap over to the next one in 10/100/1000, like 1000 meter in one kilometer, and 100 centimeter in one meter and 10 millimeter in one centimeter.

: Unlike the imperial system, where conversions seems to make no sense..

: Another thing nice to know is that 1 dm³ is one litre, and one litre of water is 1 kg.

Oh yes, and did I mention that that makes it possible to write measures using the 10^X system? hehe.. 3*10^3 = 3 km. Oh, I love metric.
September 4th 2002, 11:28 AM
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: I'm pretty sure that OkalyDDude meant "We're too proud to switch even though metric is better, as evidenced by the fact that even our labs use it."

There's a pointie -- and pretty much rest of the world uses it.. Also the Farenheit (Don't mind if that's not written right) - temperature sucks..
September 4th 2002, 11:28 AM
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ehasl
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: 1000 picometer = 1 nanometer

: 1000 femtometer = 1 picometer

: 1000 attometer = 1 femtometer

: 1000 zeptometer = 1 attometer

: 1000 yoctometer = 1 zeptometer

Hmmmm... I believe femto is larger than picco.
September 4th 2002, 11:32 AM
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In metric it's so much easier to know water's freezing - and burning (don't ASK for the official name) points.. Not that it'd mean anything.
September 4th 2002, 11:40 AM
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Wee, that went a little too small for me.. But does anyone know where 'deca' and 'hecto' and stuff comes from? Because I don't..
September 4th 2002, 12:43 PM
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Phoenix
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: In metric it's so much easier to know water's freezing - and burning (don't ASK for the official name) points.. Not that it'd mean anything.

you mean the Celsius temperature. Where water freezes at 0°C and cooks at 100°C.

Fahrenheit does, like the imperial system, not make sense to me.
September 4th 2002, 12:45 PM
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redink1
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: : In metric it's so much easier to know water's freezing - and burning (don't ASK for the official name) points.. Not that it'd mean anything.

: you mean the Celsius temperature. Where water freezes at 0°C and cooks at 100°C.

: Fahrenheit does, like the imperial system, not make sense to me.

32 is freezing and 212 is boiling, what is so hard to remember about that?
September 4th 2002, 12:48 PM
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Phoenix
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: : 1000 picometer = 1 nanometer

: : 1000 femtometer = 1 picometer

: : 1000 attometer = 1 femtometer

: : 1000 zeptometer = 1 attometer

: : 1000 yoctometer = 1 zeptometer

: Hmmmm... I believe femto is larger than picco.

1 picometer = 1x10^-12 m

1 femtometer = 1x10^-15 m

Thus is pico larger.
September 4th 2002, 12:50 PM
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Phoenix
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: : : In metric it's so much easier to know water's freezing - and burning (don't ASK for the official name) points.. Not that it'd mean anything.

: : you mean the Celsius temperature. Where water freezes at 0°C and cooks at 100°C.

: : Fahrenheit does, like the imperial system, not make sense to me.

: 32 is freezing and 212 is boiling, what is so hard to remember about that?

It is meaningless! To state it simple.
September 4th 2002, 07:29 PM
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: If I'm not mistaken the US got it's system of measurement from English kings. An inch is the distance between two knuckles of a finger, foot is a man's foot, and yard is either one stride or the distance from the tip of the nose to the tip of the fingers on an outstretched arm. I don't know where mile came from. Converting American measurements (like how beter to say a large number of inches) is like converting thousands of seconds into days, hours, and minutes. It sucks. Metric is so much beter and everyone knows it.



acualy it was the king who inented it's foot length(the rest of it is based on that king too)

and for the record, metric is way better
September 5th 2002, 01:02 AM
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Dukie
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: Wee, that went a little too small for me.. But does anyone know where 'deca' and 'hecto' and stuff comes from? Because I don't..

Deca comes from the latin word (decimus?) meaning ten .. don't know about hecto though
September 5th 2002, 01:05 AM
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Dukie
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: : : In metric it's so much easier to know water's freezing - and burning (don't ASK for the official name) points.. Not that it'd mean anything.

: : you mean the Celsius temperature. Where water freezes at 0°C and cooks at 100°C.

: : Fahrenheit does, like the imperial system, not make sense to me.

: 32 is freezing and 212 is boiling, what is so hard to remember about that?

Now, Kelvin temperature, that's hard!

September 5th 2002, 02:57 AM
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Phoenix
Peasant He/Him Norway
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: : : : In metric it's so much easier to know water's freezing - and burning (don't ASK for the official name) points.. Not that it'd mean anything.

: : : you mean the Celsius temperature. Where water freezes at 0°C and cooks at 100°C.

: : : Fahrenheit does, like the imperial system, not make sense to me.

: : 32 is freezing and 212 is boiling, what is so hard to remember about that?

: Now, Kelvin temperature, that's hard!

Nope.

0 is the temperature where everything stops. It's absolute bottom. Water freezes at 272 Kelvin, if I don't remember all wrong.
September 5th 2002, 03:59 AM
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: : If I'm not mistaken the US got it's system of measurement from English kings. An inch is the distance between two knuckles of a finger, foot is a man's foot, and yard is either one stride or the distance from the tip of the nose to the tip of the fingers on an outstretched arm. I don't know where mile came from. Converting American measurements (like how beter to say a large number of inches) is like converting thousands of seconds into days, hours, and minutes. It sucks. Metric is so much beter and everyone knows it.

: acualy it was the king who inented it's foot length(the rest of it is based on that king too)

: and for the record, metric is way better

personally, i think we should all use banana's, 10's of banana's, and 100's of.... etc. etc. etc.

with banana's, you can measure weight, length, volume... banana for everyone!!
September 5th 2002, 04:09 AM
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Noa
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Great, make this intellectual talk to another dribble about bananas...
September 5th 2002, 10:22 AM
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Really, isn't the whole temperature counting meaningless? I mean, when you are swetty, it's hot.. When you are freezing, it's cold. It's as simple as that. Maybe it makes things more comfortable, but there's no real need for thermometer.
September 5th 2002, 08:03 PM
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: personally, i think we should all use banana's, 10's of banana's, and 100's of.... etc. etc. etc.

: with banana's, you can measure weight, length, volume... banana for everyone!!

that is the BEST idea for measurment i have heard.

Just one question, what happens if you run out of bananas?
September 5th 2002, 08:06 PM
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: : personally, i think we should all use banana's, 10's of banana's, and 100's of.... etc. etc. etc.

: : with banana's, you can measure weight, length, volume... banana for everyone!!

: that is the BEST idea for measurment i have heard.

: Just one question, what happens if you run out of bananas?

Oh and we really should find a to measure time with bananas. How 'bout a banana sundile?
September 6th 2002, 12:47 AM
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: : : personally, i think we should all use banana's, 10's of banana's, and 100's of.... etc. etc. etc.

: : : with banana's, you can measure weight, length, volume... banana for everyone!!

: : that is the BEST idea for measurment i have heard.

: : Just one question, what happens if you run out of bananas?

: Oh and we really should find a to measure time with bananas. How 'bout a banana sundile?

lying naked on the lawn reading....*things*?? sorry,...
September 9th 2002, 11:28 AM
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YEAH, 0 is the absolute bottom, but it's a temperature you'll propably ever face.. So the numbers are big, & kelvin doesn't use minus.. In celsius there's basically more small numbers, like 1,-1,2,-2,3,-3,4,-4,etc, which makes the temperature thing more simple..Or something..
October 6th 2002, 07:09 AM
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magicman
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: : Wee, that went a little too small for me.. But does anyone know where 'deca' and 'hecto' and stuff comes from? Because I don't..

: Deca comes from the latin word (decimus?) meaning ten  .. don't know about hecto though

What I know is that a "hèkatombos" (or hèkatombè or something) is an offering of 100 white cows.

And I believe that even deca is stolen from the Greek!