On December 22, 2001 07:54 pm, Lee wrote: > > Too bad we blew it back in the late 70's, early 80's when we were > > *supposed* to move over to the metric system. Base-10 is FAR better a > > measurement scale than Base-the-kings-feet and other arbitrary scales. > > Metric is just as arbitrary as a king's foot being 12 inches long rather > than 10 and 36 inches from tip of his nose to finger tips. In the universe > there's nothing more arbitrary than the circumference of the Earth or > boiling and freezing point of pure water at one standard Earth atmosphere.
That would be fine if you stuck to inches all the time but: 12 inches = 1 foot 3 feet = 1 yard ???? yards = 1 mile .... then for volumes teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, quarts, gallons, etc. In metric: its all in the prefixes ... you don't need to memorize whole new things all the time each prefix is related to the others by multiples of 10 David Aikema _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
