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[MTK Eng Svcs]

the whole confusion regarding the comma in place of a decimal in the metric system comes from the french who use it when a number is less than 1,000 after which it it relegated back to its standard position ie: 100,000.00 is one hundred thousand not a different number. also when drawing a blueprint in Metric it uses the decimal in its standard position so Americans don't get confused. this being said i have seen several bad engineering diagrams from some of my profs at university and I have decided they must not have got the memo.

 

[Simon007]

I am a English guy, I was born in 1969 so I grew up in the metric era, I was also schooled in the metric era, I am also a engineer both electrical and mechanical, and in my training we use the decimal point for that reason, so 14.50 is 14 1/2 in fractions, being in Europe, I do find it strange and awkward and a little bit annoying when mainland Europeans use a comma for a decimal point. The comma in a number here denotes a number bigger than ten thousand, so 10,000.50 is ten thousand and a half.

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[Daze0007]

It messed with me too when I first had to learn it (I lived overseas for several years). However in science there are distinct advantages such as a cubic centimeter equaling a milliliter tying volumes to distance. A pint, cup, quart of gallon gives no such reference. As an example I think most people would be astounded to find out that the gallon milk jug in their refrigerator is less than a 1/7th of a cubic foot. It takes 7.48 gallons to fill a cubic foot. How many Americans know how many feet are in a mile? Probably less than how many know the number of meters in a kilometer.

Having said that I grew up in the US so yes, the metric system messes with me on some things.

1600 Meters equal 1 kilometre Im an army scout map reading is our business Grid squares are 1000 meters

 

[Yggdrasil]

I'm not sure what you are, but I hope no one have to rely on your measurements :wink:

1 kilometre is 1kilo meter which comes from kilo ie: 1000
as hekto is 100
and deka 10.

And on the other side one has:
deci 1/10 --> deciliter --> 100gms of water at 20 degC and 1 Atm pressure
centi 1/100 --> centiliter --> 10 gms of water at 20 degC and 1 Atm pressure
milli 1/1000 --> milliliter --> 1gms of water at 20 degC and 1 Atm pressure
and so on

On the other hand 1600meters are approximate one english mile

 

[jarlowski1]

It messed with me too when I first had to learn it (I lived overseas for several years). However in science there are distinct advantages such as a cubic centimeter equaling a milliliter tying volumes to distance. A pint, cup, quart of gallon gives no such reference. As an example I think most people would be astounded to find out that the gallon milk jug in their refrigerator is less than a 1/7th of a cubic foot. It takes 7.48 gallons to fill a cubic foot. How many Americans know how many feet are in a mile? Probably less than how many know the number of meters in a kilometer.

Having said that I grew up in the US so yes, the metric system messes with me on some things.

1600 Meters equal 1 kilometre Im an army scout map reading is our business Grid squares are 1000 meters

Tell your Staff Sargeant that you need to go back and redo your classroom portion of your mos immediately. Just saying... 1600 meters is 1.6 kilometers. A kilometer is bigger than a meter. 1000 meters equals 1 kilometer. Please go back and study as it is literally life and death for you to know these measurements. Not only for your own life but those around you and innocent civilians.

 

[galenrog]

Someone is confusing different systems of measurement.

While 1600 meters is clearly not equal to 1 kilometer, 1600 meters is approximately 1 mile.

Time for more coffee.