Re:A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers
by ghaff on Saturday August 10, 2019 @04:32AM
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PSI is very commonplace though I'm not in a field where I use it in an engineering way. (I actually had to think for a second to come up with the SI equivalent.)
Pounds are one of the real bugbears of imperial in mechanical engineering with lb-f and slugs (i.e. "pounds" conflates mass and weight). Always hated that. I'd convert things to metric and then convert back when I had to work in Imperial.
And I still hear stones from time to time in the UK if you really want archaic.
Pounds are one of the real bugbears of imperial in mechanical engineering with lb-f and slugs (i.e. "pounds" conflates mass and weight). Always hated that. I'd convert things to metric and then convert back when I had to work in Imperial.
And I still hear stones from time to time in the UK if you really want archaic.