On Friday 2004 February 13 21:34, Brian White wrote:
> I prefer ifp...inch foot pound.
> It's not barbed at all...nor as contrived as WOMBAT.
> Straightforward.

And I prefer fps (foot-pound-second) - which is what I was taught to call it 
at school. It makes no sense to have a shorthand which contains two units for 
one quantity, and only one other quantity.


-- 
Chris KEENAN
UK Metric Assoc: www.metric.org.uk

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