Please, please stop with the math talk. This is a bonsai site. I have been dealing with the trauma math has caused for the past 25 years. The last day I had in my second year of Algebra 2, when I graduated high school.
From my namesake there are many good videos on YouTube Peter Chan of herons bonsai has posted. He had successfully AL many big a$$ maple specimen on his channel so they may help you friend.
You can see proportion, talking 3.14 and getting technical is not necessary. Is it?
No one understands the US measurement system - definitely not the average American. Ask your average person in this country to define an "acre" of land. No one knows. Explain to them that it is the amount of land that can be plowed in one day by a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow.
Or, if that is too confusing, it is exactly 660' x 66', or 43,560 square feet. No one knows this. They just know an acre is "a decent amount of land" while two acres is "bigger".
I appreciate that you recognize that I am not no one and that I'm not average (never been accused of being average or normal).No one understands the US measurement system - definitely not the average American. Ask your average person in this country to define an "acre" of land. No one knows. Explain to them that it is the amount of land that can be plowed in one day by a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow.
Ask your average American how many cups are in a gallon. Or how many feet in a mile. Or the boiling point of water.
No one understands the US measurement system - definitely not the average American. Ask your average person in this country to define an "acre" of land. No one knows. Explain to them that it is the amount of land that can be plowed in one day by a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow.
Ask your average American how many cups are in a gallon. Or how many feet in a mile. Or the boiling point of water.
Fortunately, because of international markets they now are selling liquor in the 0.75 liter, 1 liter, 1.75 liter sizes. So much easier. I hope that eventually the US will be dragged kicking and screaming into the metric system. I am old enough to remember when we were close enough to have speed limit signs in both miles per hour and kilometers per hour. But we have too many people here that fear change and are stuck in the "old ways".
LOL I hear you. Two days ago I was spraying a systemic fungicide. I had to read the instructions for application rate in ml/liter of water... and then recalculate everything for my four gallon backpack sprayer. I should just write "15 liters" on the top of the sprayer... but then I will get a product that has instructions in ounces/gallon.I know these distance/area measurements because of helping on my grandfather's farm every summer, from ag classes, and from a golf course and turfgrass management program in community college. I use this degree daily working on a railyard.
I know the others but I can't tell you where or when I learned them. I just know stuff. LOL
The ratio stays the same though, measured in ml/l or mgallon/gallon. But then again.. There is no such thing as a miligallon is there?
What baffled me the first time I heard about it is that also in cooking the measure of cups are used for measuring non-liquids such as flower and suger, where the amount of product needed is actually a weigh-measure rather than a volume measure. It gets really complex if you try to make such recipes here, as we do not have the USA "standard cups" for measuring volume.
Sorry, but I disagree
I can remember back to a time when there was a huge push in the US to convert to the metric system. "They" started by having school children learn both systems side by side. They also changed the road signs to carry distances in both miles and kilometers. Besides international marketing, you can see a remnant of it today in the speedometers of autos.
Sorry, only speaking of the fervor and complete resistance to any discussion beyond an extreme, narrow view.
