I can't $@#!ing believe it

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: Baked
I have a ruler w/ 6 sides, but there's no inches measurement. The side profile looks like the Mitsubishi logo.

thats a drafting scale, but it should have an inches side somewhere unless it's metric.

I bought it for my architect drafting class many years ago. It's in fact metric w/ 6 different scales.

Engineers do metric? Since when?

 

[Rudee]

LOL. You bought a centimeter ruler dude. Those are centimeters!!

 

[biggestmuff]

pics or it's metric

 

[cjvon]

Originally posted by: Rudee
LOL. You bought a centimeter ruler dude. Those are centimeters!!

No. I went out to my toolbox and pulled out a steel ruler from my machinist days that has the inches divided in 10ths and 100ths. We never called them rulers but referred to them as scales. Damn hard to read the 100ths!

I have another one that's divided by 50ths and 100ths.

When working in Imperial measurements it was very rare to see fractions in the machining world. This was 20 years ago so times may have changed.

Edit:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com...868_a949a06234.jpg?v=0

 

[herm0016]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: Baked
I have a ruler w/ 6 sides, but there's no inches measurement. The side profile looks like the Mitsubishi logo.

thats a drafting scale, but it should have an inches side somewhere unless it's metric.

I bought it for my architect drafting class many years ago. It's in fact metric w/ 6 different scales.

Engineers do metric? Since when?

most things we do now are in metric. all the prints i have worked with in industry have been metric for a while.

its still like that cjvon.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: herm0016

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: Baked
I have a ruler w/ 6 sides, but there's no inches measurement. The side profile looks like the Mitsubishi logo.

thats a drafting scale, but it should have an inches side somewhere unless it's metric.

I bought it for my architect drafting class many years ago. It's in fact metric w/ 6 different scales.

Engineers do metric? Since when?

most things we do now are in metric. all the prints i have worked with in industry have been metric for a while.

its still like that cjvon.

Okay. When I took a few engineering classes it was mostly imperial units with a few metric thrown in. Coming from a science background, it drove me nuts.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: herm0016

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: Baked
I have a ruler w/ 6 sides, but there's no inches measurement. The side profile looks like the Mitsubishi logo.

thats a drafting scale, but it should have an inches side somewhere unless it's metric.

I bought it for my architect drafting class many years ago. It's in fact metric w/ 6 different scales.

Engineers do metric? Since when?

most things we do now are in metric. all the prints i have worked with in industry have been metric for a while.

its still like that cjvon.

Okay. When I took a few engineering classes it was mostly imperial units with a few metric thrown in. Coming from a science background, it drove me nuts.

slugs and BTUs and tons oh my

 

[EvilYoda]

It'll also come in handy if you're doing surveying and stuff as my friend says that that's how they do everything.

 

[Billb2]

Again. no pics and it's a metric scale

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
pics or it's metric

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Billb2
Again. no pics and it's a metric scale

Isn't it kinda hard to mix those up?

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: cjvon

Originally posted by: Rudee
LOL. You bought a centimeter ruler dude. Those are centimeters!!

No. I went out to my toolbox and pulled out a steel ruler from my machinist days that has the inches divided in 10ths and 100ths. We never called them rulers but referred to them as scales. Damn hard to read the 100ths!

I have another one that's divided by 50ths and 100ths.

When working in Imperial measurements it was very rare to see fractions in the machining world. This was 20 years ago so times may have changed.

Edit:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com...868_a949a06234.jpg?v=0

All my scales for work (die maker) are in tenths. I actually prefer ones with marks every .020" with larger delineations of tenths, half, and each inch.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Baked
I have a ruler w/ 6 sides, but there's no inches measurement. The side profile looks like the Mitsubishi logo.

My scale has inches, and multiples/divisions of inches. (architectural scale) None of those "funny tenths or hundredths of a foot" for architects...leave that stuff for the engineers...

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: ironwing
If you ever need to do maths, tenths are much more better.

If you ever need to not seem illiterate, the word is "math" -- as in mathematics = math, not maths -- and the phrase is "much better", not "much more better."

 

[Colt45]

Decimal fractions are a lot handier. You notice calipers and micrometers aren't in x/2^n fractions? They're in tenths/hundredths/thousandths, because decimalpwn.

1.300" is so much nicer than 1+615/2048", don't you think?

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ironwing
If you ever need to do maths, tenths are much more better.

If you ever need to not seem illiterate, the word is "math" -- as in mathematics = math, not maths -- and the phrase is "much better", not "much more better."

epic lol

 

[ucdbiendog]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: herm0016

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: Baked
I have a ruler w/ 6 sides, but there's no inches measurement. The side profile looks like the Mitsubishi logo.

thats a drafting scale, but it should have an inches side somewhere unless it's metric.

I bought it for my architect drafting class many years ago. It's in fact metric w/ 6 different scales.

Engineers do metric? Since when?

most things we do now are in metric. all the prints i have worked with in industry have been metric for a while.

its still like that cjvon.

Okay. When I took a few engineering classes it was mostly imperial units with a few metric thrown in. Coming from a science background, it drove me nuts.

slugs and BTUs and tons oh my

ugh how i wish I could use metric units. our company uses all imperial units, but our vendors use metric, so it gets a bit fun at times. Invariably, whenever I have to run some analysis, I always convert to metric... so much easier

 

[rhino56]

LOL this thread is hilarious.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ironwing
If you ever need to do maths, tenths are much more better.

If you ever need to not seem illiterate, the word is "math" -- as in mathematics = math, not maths -- and the phrase is "much better", not "much more better."

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ironwing
If you ever need to do maths, tenths are much more better.

If you ever need to not seem illiterate, the word is "math" -- as in mathematics = math, not maths -- and the phrase is "much better", not "much more better."

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ironwing
If you ever need to do maths, tenths are much more better.

If you ever need to not seem illiterate, the word is "math" -- as in mathematics = math, not maths -- and the phrase is "much better", not "much more better."

Well maybe once you step outside your harsh, uncultured little reality, you'll realize that maths is a legitimate use of the word.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Howard
slugs and BTUs and tons oh my

Nooooooo!! Make it go away! Make it stop!

I hate dealing with the Imperial system. Answer's off by a factor of 100? You probably screwed up units somewhere.
Answer's off by a factor of 17.08? Well crap, did you forget to square something? Use the wrong equation? Wrong number? Or just a simple units problem involving horsepower and the gravitational constant?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ironwing
If you ever need to do maths, tenths are much more better.

If you ever need to not seem illiterate, the word is "math" -- as in mathematics = math, not maths -- and the phrase is "much better", not "much more better."

The math/maths thing is regional. Where's I'm from no one says "math", it is and always has been maths. Neither is "more correct" as far as I know.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ironwing
If you ever need to do maths, tenths are much more better.

If you ever need to not seem illiterate, the word is "math" -- as in mathematics = math, not maths -- and the phrase is "much better", not "much more better."

The math/maths thing is regional. Where's I'm from no one says "math", it is and always has been maths. Neither is "more correct" as far as I know.

Whatever region you are from is stupid

It is math.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Jack Ryan

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ironwing
If you ever need to do maths, tenths are much more better.

If you ever need to not seem illiterate, the word is "math" -- as in mathematics = math, not maths -- and the phrase is "much better", not "much more better."

The math/maths thing is regional. Where's I'm from no one says "math", it is and always has been maths. Neither is "more correct" as far as I know.

Whatever region you are from is stupid

It is math.

Which sounds more correct?

I like mathematics. (I like maths.)

I like mathematic. (I like math.)

The British win again! I'm going to the theatre, bbl.