I Like Numbers
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How'd you get a picture of my "I'm really very sorry until you turn your back" face?!
One last numbers based song! Demon forces coming alive in 1965!!!!
OK, I'm done hijacking this thread. Carry on!!
swiftdog2.0 , well, you certainly bumped my thread up. Several times!
Music much?
Music much?
I thought I fixed it. Instead I probably fixed the wrong misplaced post in the wrong thread.
Music is what SwiftDogs love most!
Sorry, Danie. I clicked on What's your theme song and was unknowingly sent here. But enjoy the above and I'll post another accordingly. 
Post moved...Sorry, Danie. I clicked on What's your theme song and was unknowingly sent here. But enjoy the above and I'll post another accordingly.
That's another confusing thing, for a moment I though you wouldn't handle a 3 km long pole (which I can imagine). Then I remembered you use commas and periods the other way around
Huh? So how would you write 3.048 m?That's another confusing thing, for a moment I though you wouldn't handle a 3 km long pole (which I can imagine). Then I remembered you use commas and periods the other way around
At continental Europe we use commas for decimals and points for thousands. For example if you would translate 10000 miles (avoiding a seperator on purpose there) to kilometres, you would notate it as 16,093.44 km. I would, on the other hand, notate it as 16.093,44 km.
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I don't know how you guys walk around with those numbers.
I had no idea. I thought the metric system was the same for everyone in the SI system so scientists and mathematicians all over the world would have that commonality.
But you drive on the left side of the road, so what was I to expect?
Edited my previous post, I got my metres and kilometres mixed up...
And no, at continental Europe we drive on the right side of the road. Same as you. The United Kingdom is the one being different within Europe. Not only do THEY drive on the left, they also use miles and use the commas and points the same as you do
I remember when Mr. Carter was assuring us all that the metric system was the wave of the future and that it was imperative that we all learn it as soon as possible. I remember it being fairly simple to learn in -- whatever it was -- sixth or seventh grade. And then I remember it simply disappearing. Ol' Jimmah was wrong, it turned out, and Americans did what we do best, which is to do whatever we want and expect the rest of the world to deal with it . . . or not, as they see fit.
It's kind of funny, actually. I see kids (and when I say "kid," I'm talking about people under 40) where I work struggling with the idea that there are 12 inches to a foot and using calculators to multiply 11 x 4 and I realize that it wouldn't really have mattered either way.
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It's kind of funny, actually. I see kids (and when I say "kid," I'm talking about people under 40) where I work struggling with the idea that there are 12 inches to a foot and using calculators to multiply 11 x 4 and I realize that it wouldn't really have mattered either way.
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I have heard it called "the pound key".
Now that's familiar. I'm pretty adept in mental arithmetic and often faster than someone hammering on a calculator. Even when I tell them what the outcome is, they still want to finish entering the sum in the calculator, only to find that it agrees with me. I lost count of how many times I've said "told ya" in such occasions
I was taught to make it simple. For example 12 x 29 is kinda hard. But when you make it 12 x 30 - 12 it becomes a lot easier. I use that trick a lot, but everyone else seems to have forgotten it.
I see. So those Brits are the mixed-up ones when it comes to driving.Edited my previous post, I got my metres and kilometres mixed up...
And no, at continental Europe we drive on the right side of the road. Same as you. The United Kingdom is the one being different within Europe. Not only do THEY drive on the left, they also use miles and use the commas and points the same as you do
If I moved to England, and wanted to take my car with me, would it be illegal to have the steering wheel on the left?