> I drive miles, drink pints, weigh stones and pounds. I weigh > my mail in > grams and measure my radio waves in metres. When it comes to > measuring, > say, a piece of metal I count myself lucky that I am equally familiar > with decimal inch, fractional inch and millimetre > measurements. My brain > was programmed early enough for me to have learned > flexibility. I thank > the Imperial system for that. I'm not sure I was programmed as such - I just use the units that seem most appropriate to me. Apples - lbs. Not that the EU agrees, but never mind. Other masses - kgs. My own weight - oddball - kgs rather than lbs & stone. Length - Imperial or metric depending on what I'm doing. Pressure in bar - translated to PSI for divers who don't use metric. Depth in m - translated to fsw similarly. Distance driving - miles Distance walking - km Bearings in degrees Angles in radians (usually) And none of the timber merchants I use think it odd that I ask for a 2m length of 4x2... > A circle is divided into 360 degrees. Anyone in favour of making that > 100? 6400 always had more appeal to me Peter This email, its content and any attachments is PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL to TANDBERG Television. If received in error please notify the sender and destroy the original message and attachments. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads