Saturday, February 12, 2011

A gift of conversion

Hi Everyone:  I've been traveling to Canada a lot lately.  Up there they use universally (to Americans) strange units of measure.  For example, they use the Celsius scale for temperature measurement.  They use something called Kilometers to measure distance.  It's all very different.  But then I realized that the Fahrenheit scale and something called "miles" would seem strange to most other people around the world.  So to help out the world, I created the following graphic:

It can be uploaded to your Blackberry (or other similar device) and delegated to the background so it is always visible.  It ranges from 1 to 10 miles.  So, for example, 6 miles = 9.61 km.  Plus, 60 miles = 96.1 km so the scale can be expanded quite a lot.  For the temperature scale, I added color coding (red for hot temperatures and purple for cold).  I picked the range of temperatures for where I live - yes, in Elko it can get to -20 and it has made it over 100 on occasion.
So, you are welcome!
 

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