>>>>I also use terms like, "Miles per gallon".
>>>Which gave me the reason to use Excel... one of those things I can't possibly calculate in my head. Because miles-per-gallon is very counter-intuitive for me. Liters per hundred kilometers, now that's something I understand, simply because of years of use. So I'm tracking my car's consumption in both units, just to get used to these weird Anglo-Saxon ways of measurement.
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>>I must say that those metrics are REALLY weird... for someone used to metric measurement, "Miles per gallon" is something unacceptable. :)
>>I´ve been to the US on last August, and I need to say that those measurements just messed my braing. <bg>
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>But why - it's so logical: if one foot has twelve inches, and one yard has three feet (funny animal, eh?), then how many ounces go into a pound? Of course, sixteen. Given all that, how many feet in a mile?
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>It's so easy to understand (neither do I :).
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>BTW, the credit card was invented so we foreigners (or is "internationals" the PC term?) wouldn't have to learn to recognize the coins. Not that having some digits on them wouldn't help...

Dragan;

My mother had a riddle that she told us when we were young. If a brick and a half weigh a pound and a half, how many shingles does it take to build a brick outhouse? We always laughed at that! It seems as logical as our measurement system! :)

Tom