SAS Rumor
Vic:
I think all engineers for the last ten or fifteen years have been
taught Metric first, English second. I still prefer Fahrenheit for room
temperature (out of habit) but think in Celcius for calculation purposes.
We did an analysis on a 1963 Rover gas turbine for one of my senior labs.
All the data and specs were in English unit (ala 1963) so we converted the
few data in Metric to English and did everything that way. I had never
done fluids problems in English units before, and GADS! was it hell.
Conversion factors all over the place. I'm shocked anything ever got DONE
in english units, the equations get so messed up.
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