Hi Stephen (Humphreys) I kind of get the impression Phil is looking for more of a hard ball game - but I will let things run a while - maybe get in a bit of net practice first.
Has anyone on other groups you are a member of ever pointed out that 'metric' has a parallel etymological development in both Greek and Sanskrit - and thus must go back to some 'Indo-European' root far back in prehistory. Or that, in addition to this, our best guess as to what that root word is is something like 'menes' - that is to say the moon, (and of course the measurement of calendars and tides etc.). Of course this means, in literal terms, that all users of metric systems are lunatics best regards rob PS (see 'The Origins of Metrology' D M Macdonald, Cambridge 1992, p 4 ff) PPS Am much amused to see Phil discussing the nature of mathematical truth when he does not appear to have heard of Quine's NF. http://www.wvquine.org
