Pat,
This sounds like a good idea, but there is one major problem in the UK - it
is somebody called Scrooge who appears to live at 11 Downing Street - the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance
when translated into Australian)
Regards
Martin
Well, it was a bit interesting, if somewhat childlike in its presentation.
Pity that in the last segment, when explaining that there are 1000 m in 1 km,
they sort of treated the m and the km as two discrete units, rather than simply
one unit with a prefix.
Still, progress of sorts!
Dear All,
In this column at http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2009-12-27/story/my_list_of_wishes_for_the_new_year
Terry Dickson writes:
I hope our president doesn't bow to international pressure and put the
U.S. on the metric system. We'd have to convert miles to kilometers
and dabs
Pat, I thought it deserved some comment, which I posted as follows:
Dear Mr. Dickson,
Thank you for raising the topic of U.S. conversion to the metric standard of
measurement.
Once the U.S. moves to metric as the standard of measurement, no further
conversions will be necessary. At that
On 2009/12/28, at 01:04 , John Frewen-Lord wrote:
Well, it was a bit interesting, if somewhat childlike in its
presentation.
Pity that in the last segment, when explaining that there are 1000
m in 1 km, they sort of treated the m and the km as two discrete
units, rather than simply one
