Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

[old kodger]

Life's hard by the yard, by the inch it's a cinch. Try metricating that.

[mklotz]

A quote from...

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segmen...e-really-need/

Mathematician James Grime of the YouTube channel Numberphile has determined that 39 digits of pi—

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288420

—would suffice to calculate the circumference of the known universe to the width of a hydrogen atom. (That number is rounded, for those of you keeping track.)

My alma mater has pi to a billion digits available for your delectation...

https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/

[neilbourjaily]

[QUOTE=mklotz;211017]A quote from...

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segmen...e-really-need/

Mathematician James Grime of the YouTube channel Numberphile has determined that 39 digits of pi—

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288420

—would suffice to calculate the circumference of the known universe to the width of a hydrogen atom. (That number is rounded, for those of you keeping track.)

JPL, on the other hand tracks Voyager 1 using pi rounded only to a measly 15 digits. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/20...e-really-need/

[Frank S]

Stoner creek, a large boulder the size of a large boulder, Hum must be something in the water.

[old kodger]

Stoner creek, a large boulder the size of a large boulder, Hum must be something in the water.

You got that one wrong Frank, it's a lack of something between the ears.

[hemmjo]

You got that one wrong Frank, it's a lack of something between the ears.

Actually, Frank is right on the mark, the stuff in the water can have a very detrimental to the stuff between the ears! The list of contaminates common found in drinking water is EXTENSIVE and NOT ISOLATED to just a few remote areas in the US.

[Frank S]

You got that one wrong Frank, it's a lack of something between the ears.

But maybe it was the water that the empty space between the ears

[Toolmaker51]

Hum must be something in the water.

Sing if you can, hum if you must....

[motorhead]

it what's been passed through the water, the bong water that is!

[hemmjo]

Snip...

—would suffice to calculate the circumference of the known universe to the width of a hydrogen atom. (That number is rounded, for those of you keeping track.)... Snip

Assuming of course that the universe was round and had some comprehensible and definable limit.