how many feet is 90 meters?
our American viewers would like to know!
as if anyone from the UK would ever ask that question
I know…that part made me scratch my head and roll my eyes at the same time.
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yeah I thought that scene was awkwardly put in for us American viewers but there was no need for it.
They say hunger is the best spice - Spike
Actually, anyone considered it has a small role to play in the film?
How did Eddie's dad know exactly how many feet it was?
Sounds like someone pretending not to care, but who underneath had spent the time to look up the answer.
Probably did care more than he let on before the ending.
A lot of people in the UK still think in feet and inch, not so much in meter and centimeters, so it's not inconceivable that back in 1988 they'd still have to convert from one to the other.
shareI think it's quite possible someone would in the 80?s.
As someone who was brought up with the metric system metres are easy to understand for me, but my dad still prefers to use imperial. In fact, a lot of trades in the UK (of which Eddie's family would be accustomed to based on his father's profession) imperial is still used along with metric.
And let's not forget the UK still uses imperial for distance and the military and air industry use imperial for measurement. As a child of the 80's it sounds odd even to me to think of the height of the jump in metres.
Also height is
Isn't anyone going to actually ANSWER the question?
OK, just for fun, I will: It's about 295 feet.
enter
90 meters in feet
into Google.
Online Conversions.com lists: 90m = 98.425 yards= 295.275 feet, or about 1.6 yards less than the length of an American football field between the goal lines (not counting the two end zones of 10 yards each). 70 meter = 229.658 feet = 76.552 yards, or just over 75 yards. One meter is about 1.09 yards, so a good approximation is to convert meters to yards, add 10%, or subtract 10% to go from yards to meters. the result will be surprisingly close. 90 meters is approximately 99 yards, an error of about 0.58%, or "close enough for government work."
Just an FYI, Bob & Doug MacKenzie (a.k.a. Dave Thomas & Rick Moranis of "Second City TV") had a similar approximation on their "Great White North" record album which also works quite well. To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit temperatures, you "double it and add thirty". The exact formula is: F=[(9/5)*C+32]. So the approximate temperature for water freezing (according to Bob & Doug) is thirty (30) degrees Fahrenheit, which is an error of -6.67% compared to the actual value of 32 degrees Fahrenheit (water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius). Again, close enough, and the approximation is simple enough to do the math in your head. The approximation also works in reverse, i.e., to go from Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 30 and divide by 2, compared with the exact formula of:
C=[(5/9)*(F-32)].
Google wasn't invented until about 1997.
shareActually in the UK in 1988, people would ask that question.
The UK did not officially adopt the metric system until 1992. They didn't start teaching it in their school systems until the late 60's. Some part of the UK Scotland for example didn't even introduce it until the mid 70s. I would imagine that Eddie's Mother was taught the old way, as she had to be in her mid to late 40's when Eddie went to the olympics. So, yes ? Her asking that question is very probable...
share300 feet
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