[Elecraft] stranger than real life

[Fred Jensen]

 > For myself, I have a good concept of how long a foot (or yard, or
 > inch) is, and I don't have that same familiarity with a meter or
 > centimeter even though I have worked with metric units in engineering
 > circles for over 30 years of my life.

Hmmm ... I think everyone's experience is different.  In the mid 60's, 
in another part of the world from where I live now, everything was 
metric and I learned it.  I really didn't care about what was divisible 
by what (although I graduated in Math, and you'd think I would be), but 
ever since and still now, I tend to think in metric terms and convert 
the other way.  My speedometer reads in MPH, but it also has KPH.  Ask 
me how far to the tracks of the Transcontintal Railroad from our house, 
and I'd probably give you the answer in approximate meters.  I know what 
a meter is, I know a kilogram, and it does work.

I wonder how much it matters how it was defined and re-defined, the 
metric system is the worldwide standard, and we hams have been using it 
for years.

YMMV

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw