On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 15:51, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On a side note, all US government contracts are officially done in > metric, but since all engineering and architecture is still imperial > here, you end up with 5.08x10.16's (2x4s).
I wouldn't say _all_ engineering. My IEEE Spectrum magazine uses all metric, even when discussing non EE stuff like distances and velocities. I guess it's just those other engineers that are still in the dark ages :) Bryan P.S. I still have to convert kilometers to miles in my head whenever reading one of those articles, otherwise I have no concept of how far they are talking about. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
