6 Jul
2012
6 Jul
'12
11:49 a.m.
I learned it as "A pint's a pound the world
around" for the US and
So enven then the US thought it was the world :-)
"A pint of water weighs a pound and a
quarter" for the British
version.
YEs, that;s the version I heard.
Can anyone rememebr more of the metric conversion rhymes that were
inflcited on the public about 40 yuears ago over here? The ones I can
rememebr are :
'Two nad a quarter pounds of jam
Weighs about a kilogram'
And
'Three feet make one yard
That's not very hard
A metre measures three foot three
It's longer than a yard you see'
Not a rhyme, but something I still use to covnert temperatures from
celsius to 'the understandable scale' (as one weatherman put it) is
'double it and add 30'. No, I don't use that whn calibrating a
thermocouple, or for colour photographic procesisng, or.. but for the sort
of temperatures used i neather forcasts it's accurate enough and is
trivial to do in your head.
-tony