her math is even better—I’d never heard of numbers like “overly-eight” or “twiddley-two”…she asks C.B. if she’s getting close to the answer and he honestly states “It’s kind of hard to say”
It started BEFORE Carter, I know, I was in elementary school, and it was taught to us. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975, and although abandoned, we still have remnants. 2 liter bottles one example. Remember the miles/kilometers dual signage on the Interstates? They were supposed to all have been removed years ago, but there is still one on Interstate 40 Eastbound, West of Needles, CA
Wow. Sounds like there’s “a bit of arrogance” in your comments. Throw out a couple of stats then insult an entire country? Pretty rude unless you somehow know every individual in that country personally.
“On March 30, 1791, the French Academy of Sciences defined the length of a meter. Before this date, there were two definitions to a meter: one based on the length of a pendulum and the other based on a fraction of the length of a half-meridian, or line of longitude. The Academy chose the meridian definition. This defined one meter as one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole.
The meter is the basic unit of distance in the International System of Units (SI), the world’s standardized system of measurement. Since the 1960s, most countries have adopted the SI. This has helped ease the exchange of commerce and scientific data.
The definition of a meter has changed since 1791. Today, a meter is “the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.”
So… Instead of using a measurement system that people can relate to… Three feet (like that thing at the end of your leg) equaling a yard, or the length of the tip of your finger being an inch…let’s have a measurement system where you have to be an astro-nomer.
Sonic the Hedgehog. almost 5 years ago
This is never dull
GirlGeek Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Sally doing homework is entertaining
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
I’m with Sally’s older brother on this one. You’re on a roll, Sally Brown!
mccollunsky almost 5 years ago
I need too see where this goes too!
su43dipta almost 5 years ago
10 gramps = 1 gramophone?
Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 5 years ago
10 gramps = one minyan. ;D
sirbadger almost 5 years ago
Ten grandpas = A lot of grandparent divorces and marriages.
orinoco womble almost 5 years ago
So are a milligram and a microgram the same thing?
Kaputnik almost 5 years ago
If you color it purple, you’ve got a dye-a-gram.
littlejohn Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Just don’t break the gram. Or you will have a gram-cracker.
therese_callahan2002 almost 5 years ago
America was just beginning to use the metric system at the time this strip was published. It didn’t last very long.
lucky444 almost 5 years ago
Not bad Sally, it’s very simple. I can’t believe Americans continue to use that backward system with ridiculous words such as inch, foot, etc.
jagedlo almost 5 years ago
Then ten “grampas”=a “greatgrampa”?
jrankin1959 almost 5 years ago
You know, science teachers save this comic when they’re preparing lessons about the metric system.
Darryl Heine almost 5 years ago
How about a gram-ma?
LeeCox almost 5 years ago
Nice skill set, but you need to stick the landing, Sally!
jpayne4040 almost 5 years ago
Love Charlie Brown’s expression in the 3rd panel!
Purple People Eater almost 5 years ago
10 milligrams = 1 centigram
10 centigrams = 1 decigram
10 decigrams = 1 gram
10 grams = 1 decagram
10 decagrams = 1 hectogram
10 hectograms = 1 kilogram
You can use the sam prefixies in exactly the same way for liters and meters. There’s also a neat connection between weight, volume and length -
1 liter = 1 cubic decimeter
1 gram = the weight of 1 milliliter (1 cubic centimeter) of pure water
Why isn’t the entire world using this system?
Wizard of Ahz-no relation almost 5 years ago
back from the 70’s when they kept saying the nation was going metric.
txmystic almost 5 years ago
her math is even better—I’d never heard of numbers like “overly-eight” or “twiddley-two”…she asks C.B. if she’s getting close to the answer and he honestly states “It’s kind of hard to say”
Ellis97 almost 5 years ago
Five minigrams makes ten maxograms.
ascha35-gocomics almost 5 years ago
10 grandpas equal one DNA test.
InuYugiHakusho almost 5 years ago
Sally’s assignments must be popular reading in the teacher’s lounge.
Mediatech almost 5 years ago
1,000,000 grandpas = 1 Tampa.
Dean almost 5 years ago
There was a quote from some comic about how the illegal drug culture has taught many all about the metric system.
(Unfortunately I did not save last weeks “quote of the day” to supply the actual wording.)
JMG316 almost 5 years ago
I love Sally!!!!
Charlie Tuba almost 5 years ago
So as a grandpa (through my stepdaughter) my mass is ten grams? I eat more than that for breakfast.
JD'Huntsville'AL almost 5 years ago
She left out “10 centigrams is equal to 1 decigram.”
rzander906 almost 5 years ago
10 grampas = poor decisions of gramma
Tallguy almost 5 years ago
Ahhh, the metric system. Must be the 70’s.
knight1192a almost 5 years ago
Ten grams equal one grampa? Is this supposed to be polgamist math?
xrilander almost 5 years ago
It started BEFORE Carter, I know, I was in elementary school, and it was taught to us. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975, and although abandoned, we still have remnants. 2 liter bottles one example. Remember the miles/kilometers dual signage on the Interstates? They were supposed to all have been removed years ago, but there is still one on Interstate 40 Eastbound, West of Needles, CA
Sundialxiv almost 5 years ago
Wow. Sounds like there’s “a bit of arrogance” in your comments. Throw out a couple of stats then insult an entire country? Pretty rude unless you somehow know every individual in that country personally.
William Bludworth Premium Member almost 5 years ago
“On March 30, 1791, the French Academy of Sciences defined the length of a meter. Before this date, there were two definitions to a meter: one based on the length of a pendulum and the other based on a fraction of the length of a half-meridian, or line of longitude. The Academy chose the meridian definition. This defined one meter as one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole.
The meter is the basic unit of distance in the International System of Units (SI), the world’s standardized system of measurement. Since the 1960s, most countries have adopted the SI. This has helped ease the exchange of commerce and scientific data.
The definition of a meter has changed since 1791. Today, a meter is “the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.”
So… Instead of using a measurement system that people can relate to… Three feet (like that thing at the end of your leg) equaling a yard, or the length of the tip of your finger being an inch…let’s have a measurement system where you have to be an astro-nomer.
aaa almost 5 years ago
All grampas weigh 100 grams… huh
rcoaster almost 5 years ago
deka, hecta, kilo…