On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:


On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

If you were a statistician you would say "around two"

On 2/8/2016 7:37 PM, True North wrote:

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

Never mind dummy. The Gregster beat you to it.

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:


On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy.
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John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:21:20 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

Yup.
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On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs.

Justan Olphart
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On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would stay so backwards.

On 2/9/2016 8:53 AM, True North wrote:
Justan Olphart
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On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would stay so backwards.

America is not the rest of the world. Thank God for that.

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:53:07 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Justan Olphart
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On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would stay so backwards.

Why throw insults? Look at the problems your motherland, the UK, is having with its various
measuring systems.

A Canadian calling America backwards is suffering from mistaken identity, especially one who can't
spell America.
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