Re: re CalcPlus - FREE from Microsoft.

From: johnf (john_f_at_bigpond.net.a)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:20:02 +1100

Yes, unfortunately I still think in ft & inches, then convert.
Funnily enough, if you go to a hospital or similar and are asked your
height, I always say 5'10' - "Good thank you", they say.

My first experience on returning was to ask for prices for some carpet.
"Well, it's 12' wide & $X/metre". That set me back for a bit until I
realised that all the carpet equipment here was still set up to produce 12'
broadloom. It was a learning curve for a bit. 

--
johnf
> Yeah, it's a pain. Educated guess is that timber is now priced by volume
> (cubic metre) because most timber is imported. Freight/storage costs are
> sometimes charged by volume for non-standard (non-containerised)
> freight. Just a guess (but why OZ should use mm i/o cm is a different
> question). There again, could just be Brussels imposing a useless
> directive (again). Me, I still work in feet and inches, and work out
> metric from that, to buy - much easier!.
>
> Len
>
> johnf" <john_f@bigpond.net.a> wrote in message
> news:O0QSOVPCFHA.1292@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>I was in Europe when OZ converted  measurements to metric & it always
>>puzzled me as to why that volume measurement was adopted here, but it's
>>really no great mental calculation to convert, as most people are
>>capable of dividing by 10.
>> But why OZ adoped mm instead of cm (as used in all of Europe,) still
>> has me beat.
>> If I want buy a piece of timber for example,It's (to me) easier to
>> quickly mesure something and say I need a piece roughly 24.6 cm long
>> (instead of 2455 mm) - I just can't mentally visualise such a large
>> no. as a specific size - especially when you drive all the way to the
>> shop & accidently leave your piece of paper behind.
>> Perhaps it's just me. I don't know.
>>
>> --
>>
>> johnf
>>
>>> The official measurement is Litres per 100 Km
>>>
>>> --
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>> http://www.uscricket.com
>>> "Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message
>>> news:dUULd.585$Uj3.77@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
>>>> Don't want to be critical, BUT ....
>>>> Have downloaded CalcPlus - released Sept 2004 !!
>>>> Includes Currency Convertor, European currencies to Euro ???  That's
>>>> already YEARS out of date - "local" European currencies don't exist
>>>> any more, have been obsolete about 5 years, when the Euro became
>>>> standard currency for them all !!
>>>> This function has no current usage whatsoever. (Correction - just one
>>>> - for audit/review of  years-old European accounts in fraud or
>>>> similar investigation, to value in "todays" currency). Limited
>>>> market, I would have thought!
>>>>
>>>> Like the other convertor, though ... but again, there's a blip. Fuel
>>>> in UK is sold by the litre, so it would have been helpful to have had
>>>> a "miles per litre" convertor, too (piece of cake to add).
>>>>
>>>> Other than that, it's not bad. However, have I a suspicious mind, or
>>>> was this an insidious way to install a validation tool for Bill to
>>>> peek into my pc by the back door ??
>>>>
>>>> Len