Imperial or metric?

[Ursa major]

So there's quarks bar, eh?


(But at least we don't have to worry about the accuracy of the measures.... )

 

[gadgetmind]

It was 6C and raining heavily as I cycled to work this AM, which left me soak to the skin and somewhat cold. But you still brought a smile to my face. Thanks.
Ian

 

[ctg]

Either, but don't, for all the gods sake, give alternatives in the text, like a story I once tried to read that had in it passages like this:

Seriously, I threw the book at the wall after about 28 (XVIII or 0b11100) pages...

LOL. Pyan you made my day. Seriously. That is so funny. Although on more serious side, I've noticed that when I wrote in English, I kept mixing the imperial and the metrics in the prose, and then later on I used to rewrite the piece by using one, not both, even though the version might have read better by using the other.

So I guess, if you're a person who happens to live in both, then for the clarity's sake stick to one and don't switch from it no matter what you feel. Although, you can easily get over the measurements by using clever writing and giving alternatives like for example "the towering house was five hundred stories tall..."

 

[Ursa major]

I've travelled forty miles (over 80 kilometers) today

...which is both irritating and wrong. A mile is 1.609344 kilometres, so forty miles are the same length as 64.39376 kilometres, a long way short of eighty kilometres (a distance equivalent to 49 miles, 1249 yards and 2.3 inches, I believe).

 

[Pyan]

a long way short of eighty miles (a distance equivalent to 49 miles, 1249 yards and 2.3 inches, I believe)

Eighty miles is equivalent to 49 miles, 1249 yards and 2.3 inches? Really?...

 

[Ursa major]

No, sadly. (And I can't even rely on US miles being a lot shorter than ours. )