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If anyone is familiar with Swedish schools...

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Numsgil:
Thought is was -44, checked it out, and I'm wrong.

Lol, it's been too long since I studied the conversion stuff.

Zelos:
miles/foot/inch/pound/psi are all lame units who are doomed to die and when ever they die out its to late.
testlund, a mil=10 kilometers, you just say 10 kilometers
and PY how can you hate such lovly units? its so much better than *beep*ing imperial units
and celcius is also gonna win mohahaha, ferenheit is doomed, mohahaha

Old Henk:
Great idea! Let's have a passionate fight over which system to use!  <_<

Testlund:

--- Quote ---testlund, a mil=10 kilometers, you just say 10 kilometers....
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I just thought that the swedish word 'mil' must be translated to 'mile', just that a mile is considered to be of different length depending on what country you live in. I whould like to say that a swedish mile is 10 kilometres. If you think about where the words originate they are from the north-german language, so maybe once a 'mil' and a 'mile' was the same thing.  :)

PurpleYouko:

--- Quote ---just that a mile is considered to be of different length depending on what country you live in
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Hadn't heard of that.  :blink:

I always considered a mile to be precisely 5280 feet no matter where you live.

My views on Metric vs. imperial are kind of mixed. In everyday life I think in miles, feet, inches and degrees F but when I switch to scientific mode I work in SI units (metric)
I just can't visualize a kilometer without converting it to miles first and a summer day with a temperature of 35 celcius means about as much to me as a distance of 235 gloobles. It is an utterly alien concept.
Scientific usage of metric measurements is all about calculations, laws and stuff. It obviously works best that way for those things but from the point of actually visualizing what it means in the real world, I always have to convert back to imperial first, at least with larger units anyway. Milimeters make perfect sense to me.

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