OT: New $20 Bill
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I can't believe that on a thread discussing the possibility of putting politicians and porn stars onto US currency we have an argument outlining the benefits and disadvantages of the metric system vs standard system...
And I'm with you bro, there is not a high enough currency made for Nina Hartley...she still has a great @$$.
BTW - the answer about yards in 0.2 miles is the title of a great RUSH album.
And I'm with you bro, there is not a high enough currency made for Nina Hartley...she still has a great @$$.
BTW - the answer about yards in 0.2 miles is the title of a great RUSH album.
I hope it's a hottie. It's time we pay homage to those who give us $20 table dances. 
Reagan? Seriously? Would he be pictured asleep at his desk or reading one of the clever quips he didn't write? Guy was a Grade B actor and Grade D president.
You have listened to too many liberal views of the Gipper.
Reagan transformed a broken economy that had reachd a MIsery Index status and ended the cold war, in the face of every advisor on both sides of the aisle.
Reagan is portrayed as some bafoon who was good in front of a teleprompter. Nothing could be further from the truth. He was the personification of middle America values. He got it. He mystified his opponents, because they, and apparently you, thought he was all style and no substance. The opposite was true.
I think Sunburnt was once told that the dollar uses a metric system, but he confused that for being the Metric System.
Yes, it is a metric system meaning "relating to a metric - measurables, not arbitrary." Each value of money is a proportional measure of the other, not arbitrary. It's like evaluating football and somebody asking you, "Well what are your metrics?"
It is not based on the Metric System.
The Metric System wasn't even introduced until 1799, so how could the U.S. adopt the Metric System in it's monetary system in 1792? Classic case of hearing what you want to believe and then spreading misinformation.
Yes, it is a metric system meaning "relating to a metric - measurables, not arbitrary." Each value of money is a proportional measure of the other, not arbitrary. It's like evaluating football and somebody asking you, "Well what are your metrics?"
It is not based on the Metric System.
The Metric System wasn't even introduced until 1799, so how could the U.S. adopt the Metric System in it's monetary system in 1792? Classic case of hearing what you want to believe and then spreading misinformation.
The metric system is a system of measurement which was developed over many years, and traces it's origin to a 1585 book entitled "The Tenth" by Simon (can't remember last name), who suggested a decimal system be used for weights and measure.
Around 1670, Gabriel Mouton, a French vicar, proposed a decimal system based on the size of the earth.
In 1790, Thomas Jefferson proposed a decimal system for the United States, while King Louis XVI of France authorized scientific investigation aimed at reforming weights and measures.
Some sources say a group of scientists gathered in France in 1789 to put together today's form of the metric system. When time permits I'll present a source.
In 1795, France was first to officially adopt the metric system. The system was not new when France adopted.
Although Russia very early had a decimal currency, the United States gets most credit for first. The British Pound Sterling was last major to go metric in 1970.
Around 1670, Gabriel Mouton, a French vicar, proposed a decimal system based on the size of the earth.
In 1790, Thomas Jefferson proposed a decimal system for the United States, while King Louis XVI of France authorized scientific investigation aimed at reforming weights and measures.
Some sources say a group of scientists gathered in France in 1789 to put together today's form of the metric system. When time permits I'll present a source.
In 1795, France was first to officially adopt the metric system. The system was not new when France adopted.
Although Russia very early had a decimal currency, the United States gets most credit for first. The British Pound Sterling was last major to go metric in 1970.
Simon Stevin wrote "The Tenth" some sources say 1586. Gabriel Mouton is credited with being the father of the metric system because of his 1670 proposal. In 1790, the first "real" name for the metric system was "decimal metric system".
France adopted in 1795 or 1799 depending on source and became mandatory in 1840.
There's a myriad of sources for everything I present here. Take a look.
France adopted in 1795 or 1799 depending on source and became mandatory in 1840.
There's a myriad of sources for everything I present here. Take a look.
The metric system is definitely better as far as dividing into tenths. When I was in engineering school at OU much less the earlier years at NHS, there was a huge push for the conversion. Sadly they tried to teach both and that became very confusing as you literally had to use conversion factors...etc...etc. Half of your calculations became a series of conversations such as btu's vs kWh
I knew today would be weird, Madame Pantsuit was having a carefully choreographed staged event less than 2 miles from my house! I hope the D's pull another 'wascally wabbit' out of their azzes again to dash her hopes yet again... Help the middle class: yeah right!
Well thank you Sooners83. As you know , it is 10,000 kilometers from the North Pole to the equator via Paris, as Gabriel Mouton suggested in 1670.
We're not dealing with wave mechanics here. The metric system of weights and measures is excrutiatingly simple.
My summer Baylor project began yesterday so must go. Please forgive my spelling and English. English is not a long suite for me.
The United States is officially a dual measure system. Federal law mandates label must contain both metric and standard measure. Every state but New York has voted to approve voluntary metric only labeling. U. S. Metric Association.
We're not dealing with wave mechanics here. The metric system of weights and measures is excrutiatingly simple.
My summer Baylor project began yesterday so must go. Please forgive my spelling and English. English is not a long suite for me.
The United States is officially a dual measure system. Federal law mandates label must contain both metric and standard measure. Every state but New York has voted to approve voluntary metric only labeling. U. S. Metric Association.
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The actual Metric System was not proposed until 1799. It's roots go back to simple mathematical principles, so saying it started with a book in 1585 is absurd. And saying that US currency was based on the Metric System (which didn't exist) is patently false. There's absolutely no argument about that.
Your tying of US currency to the Metric System is really loose and grabbing at straws even if you ignore the facts. And when you get right down to it, you're actually just giving credit to the US currency being a decimal based system - not metric. Yes, the Metric System uses a decimal base for weights and measure. The tie between US currency and the Metric System is the decimal. It's not that US currency is metric as you said first.
And why stop in 1585 and the Europeans if you're giving credit to the Metric System being decimal based? Leonardo Fibonacci brought the "placeholder" based system to Europe in 1202. And that system was taken from the Arabic number system which Leonardo was introduced to while in Algeria. And the Arab mathematicians took the placeholder based system from the Indian subcontinent. And the Babylonians are actually the first known civilization to use a placeholder-like system 2000 years before the birth of Christ.
So how do you pick and choose whom to give credit to?
Which of these answers is correct?
U.S. Currency is an Arabic currency.
U.S. Currency is an Indian currency.
U.S. Currency is the currency of the Metric System?
U.S. Currency uses a decimal-based system?
