Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 11, 2019

This is never dull

Sally doing homework is entertaining

I’m with Sally’s older brother on this one. You’re on a roll, Sally Brown!

I need too see where this goes too!

10 gramps = 1 gramophone?

10 gramps = one minyan. ;D

Ten grandpas = A lot of grandparent divorces and marriages.

So are a milligram and a microgram the same thing?

If you color it purple, you’ve got a dye-a-gram.

Just don’t break the gram. Or you will have a gram-cracker.

America was just beginning to use the metric system at the time this strip was published. It didn’t last very long.

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.

Then ten “grampas”=a “greatgrampa”?

You know, science teachers save this comic when they’re preparing lessons about the metric system.

How about a gram-ma?

Nice skill set, but you need to stick the landing, Sally!

Love Charlie Brown’s expression in the 3rd panel!

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?

back from the 70’s when they kept saying the nation was going metric.

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”

Five minigrams makes ten maxograms.

10 grandpas equal one DNA test.

Sally’s assignments must be popular reading in the teacher’s lounge.

1,000,000 grandpas = 1 Tampa.

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.)

I love Sally!!!!

So as a grandpa (through my stepdaughter) my mass is ten grams? I eat more than that for breakfast.

She left out “10 centigrams is equal to 1 decigram.”

10 grampas = poor decisions of gramma

Ahhh, the metric system. Must be the 70’s.

Ten grams equal one grampa? Is this supposed to be polgamist math?

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.

All grampas weigh 100 grams… huh

deka, hecta, kilo…