number below label

[Flynco]

what does it stand for the number below label are yards miles metre for example 0.2 is 200 yards?

 

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[WWDubya]

Kilometers.

2.0 is 2 Km, .20 would be 200 meters, .02 is 20 meters.

[Flynco]

ok thank for your reply

[ACG_pezman]

But a meter is like 1.03 yards, almost the same.

[Asgar]

damn you Merica! Use the metric system already  

[Asgar]

"Trumps purge of 2017" :D

[curiousGamblerr]

Make Measuring Great Again

 

We're so screwed :D

[69th_chuter]

LOL. I personally would love to convert over to SI units...but if the government tried to make it mandatory I suspect a lot of people here would be like "You can have my Freedom Units when you pry them out of my cold, dead hands", then disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians and dump a bunch of meter sticks into Boston Harbor.

 

 

What killed the government mandated general conversion in the seventies is most industries have long ago set standards in inches.  There are more than just inch conversions to do as well for example wire and sheetmetal gages.  A very simple example is American football where the field is 100 yards or 91,44 meters long.  The simple thing to do would be to convert to 100 meters but at many stadiums (from grade school level up) that isn't a practical solution. 

When so many things in a multitude of industries are rounded to the nearest inch measurement you're naturally going to run into issues simply doing a metric conversion and it might not be practical to switch to a rounded millimeter equivalent.   On the other hand the move to metric hasn't been completely tossed out, just try to do maintenance on your car (odd, since all the threaded hardware on our Airbusesses is inch ... ).

[No601_Swallow]

I love the standard railway guage. 1435.1mm!  That's 4ft, 8 and a half inches, thank you very much. And since we (i.e. the UK) invented the thing, we get to say how wide it is!    The thought of all those offices and workshops filled with weeping French and German railway engineers fills me with a warm glow!

 

Long live imperial measures!