You know, I just realized there's one unit of measure I've yet to see
converted to metric.
Grains. I haven't seen a lot of decigram calibrated scales out there. But then
I guess that a lot of metric countries don't have people loading their own
ammunition.
Still, bringing it back on topic, perhaps I'm old school but the only game I
can think off off the top of my head what uses Metric for measurement is the
GW crowd of games. Everything else seems to use Inches for distance.
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games, both fantasy and 40k use Inches for distances in their Engllish
language versions. IIRC the transaltions into other languages use some kind of
metric conversion.
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Subject: [GZG] Weights and measures was: Hypothetical weapon question
You know, I just realized there's one unit of measure I've yet to see
converted to metric.
Grains. I haven't seen a lot of decigram calibrated scales out there. But then
I guess that a lot of metric countries don't have people loading their own
ammunition.
Still, bringing it back on topic, perhaps I'm old school but the only game I
can think off off the top of my head what uses Metric for measurement is the
GW crowd of games. Everything else seems to use Inches for distance.
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> Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> You know, I just realized there's one unit of
And while we're at it, when did we stop using the good ol' Kelvin scale for
temperature measurement?? Geez, all I ever hear about anymore are Farenheit
and Celsius...
:-D
Mk
> At 12:50 PM +1100 10/28/08, John Tailby wrote:
Hmm, was it just epic that used CM?
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tlefleet Gothic uses Centimetres so Epic might have as well (I can't
remember). Â Any of that Epic terrain around? Those ruins were really good.
Hmm, was it just epic that used CM?
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> On Tue, October 28, 2008 02:40, Indy wrote:
wrote:
> You know, I just realized there's one unit of
Heard of milligrams being used a lot, never decigrams.
> And while we're at it, when did we stop using the good ol' Kelvin
I might be missing the sarcasm, but Kelvin is used a lot in physics and
astronomy. Haven't heard of anyone mention Farenheit for ages, except once
recently when none of us present could remember how to convert it to Celsius.
We use inches when were using 25/28mm then switch to cm for 15mm -
seems to work.
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> You know, I just realized there's one unit of
How about the Rankine scale? Rankine is to Farenheit what Kelvin is to Celsius
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Samuel Penn <sam@glendale.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, October 28, 2008 02:40, Indy wrote:
wrote:
> You know, I just realized there's one unit of
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> Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Samuel Penn <sam@glendale.org.uk> wrote:
> > And while we're at it, when did we stop using the good ol' Kelvin
Yep, you missed the sarcasm. :-) Yes, used a lot in physics and
astronomy, but not so in the 'every day language' of the public, whereas
Farenheit and Celsius are. Least ways, I hear both of those terms all the
time, and Kelvin only if I'm looking up anything about stars (don't even hear
Kelvin used wrt interplanetary exploration much; usually even there it's C or
F).
Mk
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Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Richard Bell <rlbell.nsuid@gmail.com>wrote:
> How about the Rankine scale? Rankine is to Farenheit what Kelvin is
GOOD call! Forgot about Rankine.
Mk
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> y wrote:
Okay, here's an obscure one... Anyone else ever heard of the Reaumur scale for
temperature? Has an interesting origin.
Phil