From ppt units of measure:
Foot = 2/3 cubit, about 12.16”
I think I've been using the wrong foot...?
1 Vera=2.7778' ? is that what pink floyd was singing about? now i have heard of the vara and the old spanish vara, etc. not the Vera...
I don't have a program to open a .ppt file
More often than you would think, the difference can be in the number of decimals used to compute the conversion, for example 1 vara = 1/0.36 feet is an absolute answer.
I remember Vera, she was a waitress at Mel's Diner.
How many Veras in a Smoot? We're going backward in our units, instead of forward to metric. :-S
> We're going backward in our units, instead of forward to metric. :-S
The metric system is nothing but a French fad that will soon die out.
The language is a bit dated (1880) and un-PC, but the sentiment is in the right place:
They bid us change the ancient “names,”
The “seasons” and the “times,”
And for our measures go abroad
To strange and distant climes.
But we’ll abide by things long dear,
And cling to things of yore,
For the Anglo-Saxon race shall rule
The earth from shore to shore.
Then down with every “metric” scheme
Taught by the foreign school.
We’ll worship still our Father’s God!
And keep our Father’s “rule”!
A perfect inch, a perfect pint,
The Anglo’s honest pound,
Shall hold their place upon the earth,
Till Time’s last trump shall sound!
Then swell the chorus heartily,
Let every Saxon sing:
“A pint’s a pound the world around,”
Till all the earth shall ring,
“A pint’s a pound the world around”
For rich and poor the same:
Just measure and a perfect weight
Called by their ancient name!
PSW on Pints
A pint's 1.04 pounds the world around.