Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:0.001km = 0.01hm = 1m = 10dm
= 100cm = 1000mm (Score 1) 909  by arose (#42456389) Attached
to: USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication  There
certainly are thirds, even if they are expressed in scalable
percentages.  There are 33%, 66% and 67% percents, but as
repeatedly stated decimals just don't divide into thirds
cleanly, there are no thirds in the 3 feet to a yard sense.
Point being that even division just isn't that important.  It
doesn't come up as much in daily life..  I suspect what "comes
up" and doesn't is quite dependent on what is easy to do. I find
myself calculating the volume of containers quite often, it is
very handy when adjusting volumetric yield sizes to
pans/containers. I could measure the capacity by pouring water
of course, but why mess around with that if your measuring
system has the tools built in? I was not very pleased when
trying to figure out how many cubic feet of soil it would take
to fill up a tote with the volume given in gallons. Ne