Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good googly moogly, Jim! I would never pretend to be a mathematician! I still have trouble balancing the checkbook with "QUICKEN"! I am so right-brained, and left-handed. I once had an MRI just to see if there was anything on the other side! The results were, as they termed, "Inconclusive"! :o/ What's a "Mars" anyway- some kinda candy bar, right? Dan - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 11:53 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: Units <OT> > Sounds like you guys were the mathematicians on the recent crispie Mars > probe... ;-) > > Jim > > At 11:38 AM 10/1/99 -0400, Dan Post wrote: > >Unless you use Troy weights, and then it's 12 ounces to the pound! > >I am still sorting out gills, jacks, pouds, tuns, firkins, and pennyweights! > >Dan , six pounds of.... stuff, in a 5 pound bag! > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <Ruralmopics@aol.com> > >> > >> In a message dated 10/1/99 1:33:53 AM, timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca writes: > >> > >> << (who grew up learning there were 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 > >shillings > >> > >> in a Pound) > >> > >> Over here you only have to give 16 ounces for a pound > >> > >> Bob (what's the meter) McEowen >