Time to switch to SI units.

Dave Olsenwrote:

Bluewater icon 9.1 weighs 17,067 grains per chain

I actually had a summer job where we used a chain, very similar to using rope lengths so you don't have use use such large numbers.

A 60 meter rope is 3 chains. See how simple?

Height of Whitney- 220 chains

Andrew Krajnik wrote:

Fun fact: an attoparsec (10^-18 parsecs) is 1.215 inches, so 10 attoparsecs (a deka-atto-parsec?) is almost exactly one foot!

Clearly this means that this is the superior form of measurement.

How many cubits to a furlong?

Dave Olsenwrote:

Bluewater icon 9.1 weighs 17,067 grains per chain

I actually had a summer job where we used a chain, very similar to using rope lengths so you don't have use use such large numbers.

A 60 meter rope is 3 chains. See how simple?

Height of Whitney- 220 chains

Google says you are wrong, as 2 chainz is 6' 5" in height

Matt Nwrote:

Google says you are wrong, as 2 chainz is 6' 5" in height

It's a measurement of the smoke column coming from his blunt before it disperses. Obvs.

In a guidebook I wrote, I actually used furlongs as the distance measuring unit to get to crags. I received a lot of negative feedback about it, which was OK.  It showed readers were paying attention. This usage reflected much time that I have spent at racetracks. I sometimes wrote back to complainers that “furlongs” added dignity to the description like Lincoln starting the Gettysburg Address with “Four score and seven years ago,” rather than “87 years ago.” I sometimes added that I thought of giving the length of chimneys in fathoms and road distances in leagues.

Simplest are SI units and the Australian grading system. Everything else is obscurity justified by historical usage.

My pro master gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I likes it!

x3 / 10

rob.calmwrote:

In a guidebook I wrote, I actually used furlongs as the distance measuring unit to get to crags. I received a lot of negative feedback about it, which was OK.  It showed readers were paying attention. This usage reflected much time that I have spent at racetracks. I sometimes wrote back to complainers that “furlongs” added dignity to the description like Lincoln starting the Gettysburg Address with “Four score and seven years ago,” rather than “87 years ago.” I sometimes added that I thought of giving the length of chimneys in fathoms and road distances in leagues.

Simplest are SI units and the Australian grading system. Everything else is obscurity justified by historical usage.

Upon reading the first post in this thread I immediately thought of your Vedauwoo guide.

Beth Cwrote:

My pro master gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I likes it!

Jesus, I hope it does better than that! (That's almost .002 mpg...)

Done!

That's so helpful.  Thanks, Nick!

Peter Bealwrote:

How many cubits to a furlong?

70