Look up aluminium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Aluminium (also aluminum in the United States and Canada) is a metallic element.
depends on where your from. But did the brits every do anything right. they even put the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car, this mistake caused them drive on the wrong side of the road.
Big grins, by the way.
Dave Patterson
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--- On Sat, 1/15/11, Charles Mitchard <charlesmitchard@bigpond.com> wrote:
From: Charles Mitchard <charlesmitchard@bigpond.com>
Subject: [gingery_machines] Re: the metric argument
To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 9:31 AM
Its actually pretty obvious that the metric system of nuts and bolts is
useless and imprecise.
Just look around you at all those Japanese cars that are falling to bits
in every country in the world.
</sarcasm>
A system of measurement is just that, a system of measurement. It can be
any arbitrary distance between two points. If you divide that distance
into equal divisions of smaller and smaller sizes and can accurately
repeat them then your precision level goes up.
Precision is in the hands of the operator and the the equipment being used.
If either is not up to the task then an imprecise product is formed.
The real point of this discussion is that changing from one set of
measurements to another because of the equipment you have available can
lead to imprecision if you dont really know what the "accurate"
conversions are or your equipment cannot handle the conversion.
Some of my projects are measured in lengths of wood and its fractions,
inches, millimeters and for the really precise work nanometers, or for
the metrically challenged angstroms, all in the same project.
And just as a matter in interest the piece of equipment to measure in
nanometers is home made from a couple of very cheap chinese micrometers
and some aluminium scrap.
And just to start another flame war..... Oh look, aluminium is spelt
correctly.
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