David Aikema wrote: > 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
That's why we're so much better at Base eight and hexadecimal than the French. Lee > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
