On 10/13/2010 09:48 AM, Marco Serantoni wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > >> >>> I wonder if it occurred to others - if the inch had been defined as >>> 25.6 instead of 25.4/mm this >>> problem would have been quite different. >> >> I thought the inch was defined first. >> >>> I do think the inch will die out someday. >> >> That's what they said in here in the USA in the 1960's. And then Dr. >> Spock came along and the world got soft, teachers got a break, kids got >> a break. In the 1960's I remember there being a commitment to learn >> metric, then that commitment went away, because it meant, ahem, work and >> study and teaching. Not just for kids in school but also for adults out >> of school. > > Dick, we doesn't want that US will change its metric system, nor begin > a lesson of metrology. > Scientific international system is MKS, wxDC has also calls that > returns millimeters, the greatest part of the world population uses a > metric system, ISO 31 says the same, don't you find those be good > reasons to switch the internal metric system to a metric one ? > > Mr Spock could say in this occasion: the many outweigh the needs of > the few. > > -- > Marco
No idea what you are talking about Marco. Your reply does not match my posting. You have a misunderstanding about what I said. My posting was in English, but that seems not to have been good enough. Dick _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp