Re: Fahrenheit?
I am too young to understand Imperial measurements.
At less than a month short of 60, so am I. I can do the sums to work out what someone from the USA actually means then they say that the temperature outside is "over 100 degrees" - subtract 32 and divide by 1.8 to get about 37.78 actual degrees. I can multiply miles by 1.6 to get a rough conversion to distance and if someone wants to talk about flooding you get litres if you multiply their unit (Acre Foot) by 14.8 million!
There is a difference between being good at sums and actually "understanding" units that are pretty unchanged since the time of Shakespere.
Anyway, about degrees. "Who else remembers being taught that "one Rad subtends 1 metre at a distance of 1 kilometre". How many of those to a degree?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
