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Erik Duley wrote:

Vance Jaqua wrote:

As far as I am concerned the SI (Systeme
Internationale) left out an H in the middle and a T at
the end- The only advantage to the metric system is
the
fact that it is decimal and that is marginal when you
have a ridiculous pressure unit Pascal ( one Newton
per square meter) and you need almost a mega to pump
up
a tire and a Newton which is about equivalent to the
force of an apple (Kg/9.8). We went to the moon and
back on feet and inches, and crashed on Mars when they
tried to mix them - Vance

Why don't they just say Newton per square meter like we
say pounds per square inch. What shall we call one pound per square
inch? How about a Fred or a George? :-)

Paul Lama

Can you say "Can't teach old dogs new tricks!" :-)

As I come from metric land (New Zealand) I have only ever known the metric
system
Every time you guys calculate anything you have to throw in all these
conversion
factors to get from one arcane unit to the next :-)

Vance -  everyone talks about pressure round here in Bar (14.7psi :))which
is a one standard atmosphere, now doesn't that just make plain sense?

1 Bar = 1,000,000 Pa

Well there you go a conversion from one arcane unit to another :-) PL

When you get your weather map, what is the unit of pressure. It is mBar
here,

Regards Erik
now doesn't that just make plain sense?

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