But seriously, gauge blocks are fascinating; as are fine micrometers. Changes in temperature causing expansion drives home the inexactness of size. At certain scales it all becomes relative.
If [I buy wheat] at Wrexham, [I must order] by the hobbet of one hundred and sixty eight [pounds] [76 kg]. But, even if I do happen to know what a hobbet of wheat means at Wrexham, that knowledge good for Flint is not good for Caernarvonshire. A hobbet of wheat at Pwlheli contains eighty-four pounds [38 kg] more than a hobbet at Wrexham; and a hobbet of oats is something altogether different; and a hobbet of barley is something altogether different again.
I just spent my afternoon doing volume calculations… each unit is 3 oz, I need 300 units, 900 oz, but I can only buy in 1 gallon which is 128 oz, etc. For this one, each unit is 10g and 600 of those, I can buy in 1.25 lb or 2.6 lb let’s convert that and see what the cost per gram is and go with the cheaper, okay I can buy in 1180g how much do I need again?
Repeat that 57 times and you too can have a job in supply chain.
Me whenever someone mentions anything vaguely resembling measurement
Measurement is an interesting field, I was just reading about Atomic clocks
You fool, what have you done
Yeeeees, yeeeeess, feel the units flow through you. >}
Heh heh heh. Unit. Hehehe.
But seriously, gauge blocks are fascinating; as are fine micrometers. Changes in temperature causing expansion drives home the inexactness of size. At certain scales it all becomes relative.
I know right? Who would have thought the decay rate of Cesium-133 was so regular…except when it isn’t!!!
Tad
Dash
Smidge
A bit
Just a moment
Monarchical Inch
A peck
A hobbit
Okay, I’ll bite. What does “a Hobbit” mean as a unit of measurement?
Two and a half imperial bushels
I just spent my afternoon doing volume calculations… each unit is 3 oz, I need 300 units, 900 oz, but I can only buy in 1 gallon which is 128 oz, etc. For this one, each unit is 10g and 600 of those, I can buy in 1.25 lb or 2.6 lb let’s convert that and see what the cost per gram is and go with the cheaper, okay I can buy in 1180g how much do I need again?
Repeat that 57 times and you too can have a job in supply chain.
Reading that made my brain hurt. It’s times like this that I really wish America would go metric.
But what I can say? That’s a 570-liter dream.