Joel spake: > Thanks for this wonderful link. It will provide much interesting reading. > About the Brave New World of uniform measurements based on units of 10. > They tried hard to switch American medicine over to the European units for > chemistry values (out with mg/dl, in ng/l or meq/l etc. > They stopped when people starting getting killed. There was no gain in this > attempted switch over and a lot of pain, as it turned out. > Which unit is more convenient for measuring air temperature, Fahrenheit or > Centigrade?
Like many, I was reluctant to change to metric. But I have to say that now having done so, I rarely even think about the old units of measurement at all. All of my reference points have become metric which, I suppose, is the key. To me, -40C is too cold to go out, 15C is a nice Spring day and 30C is time for a beer in the shade. There have been a few horror stories such as the infamous case of an Air Canada ground crew that got mixed up between gallons and litres when refuelling an airliner. The aircraft subsequently made a forced landing 'on fumes' at a small private prairie airstrip. -- burns _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
