There is something to be said for Imperial Units
It's always easy to divide by 2 without access to accurate scales; therefore 1/4s, 1/8s, 16th, etc. are also simple. Try dividing a Pizza into 10 equal slices without a protractor.
A Stone is 14lbs, or enough bread or meat for 8 men for 2 weeks at 2oz per man per day.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:35, Share, Reply)
No, really, there isn't.
i. If it's so easy to divide by 2, why do I suddenly have to divide by 14?
ii. A trader who can't afford a set of scales in this day and age is a fucking crap trader.
iii. 57g of meat per day? On yer bike grandpa.
iv. Units have nothing to do with how many people want to share a pizza.
v. Having spent my formative years computationally modelling and balancing Sea King rotor systems I can assure you I can still divide a circle into five equal parts to within ±3° by eye, so ten is not a problem.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:49,
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...the point is it all divvies up into 'nice' numbers that you can achieve with balancing scales instead of trusting someone else's weights. And you can factor Time into it as well.
Don't blame me, blame the Roman Army.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:27, Share, Reply)
these do seem like 2000 year old problems
I cant remember the last time I saw anyone weighing stuff to sell with weights. The butcher is about the only place I get asked how much I want by weight these days
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±3°? Nice way of getting an extra olive.
*edit* you're good at this then I assume?
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Can't do the parallelogram ones.
But the intersections and circle-in-a-triangle come easy.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:54,
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Cut a quarter pounder into 7,
Then give them two and three elevenths of a bit each.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:00,
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I was watching some aussie video and they mentioned some forrin name for horsepower and torque.
Freaks.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:23,
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