Hi :)
Going to the moon by foot sounds a tad tricksy. So, sometimes base 12, sometimes base 20,
sometimes base 8 (i think?) and sometimes base (some horribly high number). I wonder if adult
numeracy rates would improve if they just stuck with base 10 for everything. Not sure it worked
here tbh
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>; "users@global.libreoffice.org"
<users@global.libreoffice.org>
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 18:05
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes
Hi :)
Even NASA use feet and inches. How many feet left to dock. Even their plans to go to the moon go
by feet. I wonder if half the computers they use are purely to convert between feet and miles and
another half to convert to the metric systems used by everyone else they co-ordinate with.
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 16:48
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes
On 02/21/2013 10:59 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 02/21/2013 04:01 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2013-02-20 21:33, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
On 02/20/2013 05:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:36 20/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
Europe A4 size
Perhaps that should be
"everywhere-in-the-world-except-the-United-States-and-Canada A4 size".
Brian Barker
I do not know about the rest
of the world.
I knew that Europe tend to use A4.
Why USA and Canada uses "letter size" when the rest use A4, who knows.
Here is a short history on it:
http://www.serif.com/blog/a-quick-history-on-a4-and-letter-paper-sizes/
Canada follows the US for obvious reasons. IMO, I would rather follow with the A4 and metric
sizes, we should all be following the metric sizing.
Cheers,
Marc
The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time. We are using more metric in
manufacturing, but for use in the home or business, people grew up learning the "English"
system of feet/inches, pounds/ounces, cup/gallon, instead of all of the
base-ten metric measurements.
Yes, if we taught our kids from the early ages to use metric along with what we use now, maybe
we can get them to be more use to the metric system so we can move to it someday as an equal to
our current system. Of course, business use letter size paper, letter size storage, letter
size presentation devices to hold their letter size paper, and the list goes on and on. All
those things that are based on the letter size paper and cannot fit the A4 size paper will have
to be replaced so they can fit both sizes - as a standard size - before business will be
thinking about using A4 regularly.
The thing that matters most in the USA is economics. When it becomes more economical to use
the metric system, we will change very rapidly. In the past, we produced soft drinks in the quart
size. When the demand for packaging them in liters for sale overseas, two different measuring
systems
increased their costs. So, large soft drink containers were produced exclusively in liters sizes
to save money.
I suppose the equivalent for printers is this: when it becomes cheaper to make a printer
which will print A4 (and thus letter size with a small added border) and the demand is high
enough, printers will rather quickly change to using A4 as the standard size.
All of this is my personal opinion, of course.
--Dan
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