On 28 Mar 2000, Lars Clausen wrote:
> So do we go with Knuth, PostScript or ATA? Units are such fun. And I
> haven't even brought the six different European points into it:)
The Babylonian civilisation has collapsed since quite a few years. Let's
drop those bizarre multipliers ; milimetres (or micrometres, if we want to
keep values integer) and powers of ten are good enough, and computer
friendly enough :-) [at least for internal processing. Support for legacy
units in the UI is not a problem, is it ?] (Well, in fact, we should
develop our own set of units, based on a 1/16384 of the length of a
meridian, with powers of two everywhere. No, just kidding.)
-- Cyrille
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Grumpf.
