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Nephasth:
Was helping the little girl with her math homework this evening. She had a worksheet on measuring sides of quadrangles and finding their perimeters. So we pull out her little ruler and start measuring... ---smurfing--- thing was ruled to tenths of an inch! Chinese piece of crap! :banghead:

Hoopz:
Did she learn to "carry the one" or do they call it "regrouping"?  I have a couple friends who teach elementary ed/intermediate level and I blow them grief about that term all the time.

Though a "metric" style ruler in inches is hilarious.   :lol

Le Chuck:
You guys haven't heard about the metric-imperial-fusion?  Inches are now measured in 10ths and 100ths.  They are all slightly longer and a foot is now half a meter and only 10 inches.  One inch is now 5cm.  A KM is still 1000m which is conversely 2000ft.  The mile is now a unit of time as is the parsec... though this was probably done to justify Han's Kessel run figures.  The new wieght conversion goes gram, ounce, kilogram, lb, stone, tonne all being factors of 10 to each other.  Finally time has been adjusted to a 10 month year of 10 hour days with 100 minutes of 100 seconds each.  You probably need a new watch also.  Man you guys are behind the power curve on this one.       

yaksplat:
Well, there were 10 months until Julius Augustus Caesar added July and August.  It has always bothered me that the months with the prefixes sept, oct, nov and dec weren't the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.

Dervacumen:
I've seen those a couple times.  It make measuring easy as long as you're going it alone and don't plan on using the measurements for anything outside your little project.  Just wait till you come across a ruler that's split in to dodecameters.  Those are a pain.

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