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You Can’t See The Wood…

Monograph No. 3: June 1975

METRIFICATION – ACTIVITIES, RELATIONSHIPS, and HUMOR

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

92

You Can’t See The Wood…

Diana Willment

SCENE: A wood shop, not a hundred miles from Greenford.

DATE: Summer 1970, before decimalisation of money, but after the demise of the half-crown.

CUSTOMER: I should like a piece of that moulding please, 1 inch wide and 6 feet long

SHOPKEEPER: We are just going metric and all our lengths have been metricated.