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~-should understand why.”

The. fact is) that, in

‘countries where. the. metric “

system-has been used fora
“century. and. ‘more, | ‘sailors:
still use the older. measure-

ments. The explanation is
not that seamen. are: conser- .

-vative, or mentally encrusted .

‘useful. measure. for a: sailor

‘switch to feet for precise’

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“ment. ‘to. say, for. example,

‘centimetres. _

-in both fathoms and feet. ‘As

other hand, is too. small. to be -

with ‘barnacles, but rather
_ that: the -older measures are-
-more useful having evolved:
over the centuries. to meet

real human needs.

‘It is a meaningful state:

‘that “the. sea _ today is
"running six feet.’’ It is not,.
_ however, useful to say ‘‘the
sea is 1:82 meters;”’ ms

In ‘the. same way, it is
‘handier to say that.a rope has
a diameter of. three ‘inches
than to’ say is 7.62.

A fathom, similarly, is a

and modern electronic depth |
sounders give measurements

every. sailor knows,. you set
the depth: sounder to fathoms
when. you. are. offshore, you.

readings. A- metre, on the .

aig addition nip Sractcatiey.
__there.i is the question of aang

navigational ‘tables. will ‘be
metric. This means that lives.
can: be . lost when, people
make mistakes, Cimon

In addition to: practicality,
there is also the not-unim-

portant | aspect’ of tradition:

because ‘many: of or mea-

_ surements come down to us’
* from. antiquity and. have

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fascinating backgrounds.

The inch, for example, is
one of several measurements:
which can be traced back to
Egypt and. it’ is today,
“fiterally, within. a. hairs:

_ breadth of that © of.

- Pharoahs. | These » Eeyptian
measurements are particu-.

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_ larly interesting because, not.
only have they stood the test:
of time ‘but, in addition, they
“are astonishingly scientific in |
background, being ‘based on:
precise measurements. of the
length of a degree of latitude

d of the surface area of the

earth, . _

These* me surements are
‘so-accurate. hat it is ‘only in
-recent. times.’ ‘that’ ‘we have
been | able- to . improve, .On .
them. and, today,’ we ‘have no.
idea: chow, they “were ‘made.
The Egyptian measurements /
-were thus, in some respects, |
more | ‘scientific’ . ‘than. ‘the’
“metric “and, “in practical”
terms. often more useful.

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new system. simply because >
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reflects British awareness of

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