[BITList] SI units in australia

[John Feltham]

G'day Hugh,

On 06/06/2011, at 11:38 PM, HUGH wrote:

> Congratulations on Sophia Frances, No 17 - we are stuck at 4.  It's curious that Australia gives the important data in Metric, 4275 gm and 65cm.  For all the UK has been Metric for years and years, new babies are always 7lb 5 oz, or some such. Length seems not to matter, unless in the form of "he/she's a big/small baby".



Australia became a 'decimal' country in 1966 - three years before we arrived here.

See..

http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/currency.html

Unfortunately years later some of the old school still advertise and talk of pounds, ounces, feet and inches.

The police on TV news are always talking about the one that they're looking for being five foot eight. None of the younger generation know what they're talking about.

While the oldies don't know how tall they are in metrics units. Me included.

My wife measures things in Centimetres, being that she is Dutch. But the centimetre is not a standard unit of measurement in Australia..

See...

si units in australia

in Google.


ooroo


 
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