I notice that there are only two posts
there for this month. I see some slightly older messages by Markus Kuhn, one of
the prime movers in the setting up of the newsgroup, and our old friend Euric.
I must confess that, for lack of available
time, I've ignored it.
Bill Potts, CMSRoseville,
Last year, Internet users voted successfully to
establish the USENET newsgroup misc.metric-system for the
discussion of metric system issues. I certainly don't want to suggest this at
the expense of our listserver, but the newsgroup is a great way to
share metric system views worldwide, and
On 2005 Apr 13 , at 10:45 PM, Phil Chernack wrote:
I would love to think exclusively in metric but the reality is that the immediate world around me does not. When I go to the store I could order 125 or 200 grams of roast beef or cheese but the deli person will look at me like I have three heads.
My comment on the inch being 25 mm was
meant to emphasize that this simple change in the 1870’s would have
eliminated imperial quickly, not the other way around. One method that
imperialist hang onto their blessed inch is by refusing to be decimal. So we
get the ½, 1/4, 1/8, etc. Pushing 1/
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Unless I need
precision, I think of an inch as 25 mm
Same here. The
base is a 100 mm module, so an "inch" is OK slang for a 25 mm
subdivision. Much as a "quarter" is OK slang for a 25 cent piece out of a
100 cent dollar. It isn't elegant but it works, in a
reality of con
I don't think of a mile. I think of a kilometre, and know that it is 1000
m.
Do you drive a car?
