Hi :) base-12 is good because it's easy to divide by so many different numbers and still get to a whole number. It's a tad difficult to count on my fingers as i am not as blessed as Henry VIII's wife, Ann Boleyn. It's kinda odd that we all settle for using base-2 or base-16 without even noticing it.
is it time to roll out the old joke of "There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those that think in binary and those that don't (errr, and some that are indeterminate)" Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: rost52 <bugquestcon...@online.de> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 3:36 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats? Units and their system is a question of what you are used to and for what you developed a feel. The metric system has it is advantage in the factors of 10 or 1/10. I consider this as the reason why most countries adopted the metric system. If a country is serious about a change, than all measures must be provided for a while in both units and after while the old units must disappear. Is there a chance that all countries go metric? It depends on the pride to use a different one with all disadvantages link to it. On 28.08.2013 03:34, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I think our cars show both too. I think road signs only show miles. Errr, i > am a cyclist so any distance away just seems forever away until i reach it. > 60 miles might take just a few hours one day but then an 8mile might be > unfeasible another. Bit of an exaggeration of course. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ________________________________ > From: James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> > To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 19:08 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to > other software/formats? > > > Ruth Ann wrote: >> Metric just never caught on here in the USA. And I noticed that as the >> signs were replaced, the news ones just gave the distance in miles again. >> > You can thank Reagan for that one. Peanut Carter had implemented a plan > to convert, but Reagan killed it. This was the same period as when > Canada switched. >> Oh, and our cars still do show the speed in both miles per hour and >> kilometers per hour - but I think that is probably just in case we >> happen to visit Canada (who has gone metric, I think) :-) > Both Canada and Mexico along with every other country an American can > drive to, uses Km. The U.S. is stuck with 2 third world countries as > the last holdouts. How does it feel to have the U.S. on par with > Liberia and Myanmar (Burma). > > Regardless, thanks to world trade, more and more U.S. companies are > having to work with the metric system, if they want to sell elsewhere. > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
