Re: The Imperial System

Subject: Re: The Imperial System
Author: scott s.
Date: 12 Jul
Ref:

Dallas <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in
news:xd7au7vo8khn.1fj7aegsuhts9$.dlg@40tude.net:

> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:23:46 +0200, Marcel Kuijper wrote:
>

>> Can people please stop using the Imperial System??

>
> Only the King of the World could accomplish that wish.
>

AFAICT, the only real advantage of metric was conversion between units
in the days of slide rules. Today with calculators / computers
conversion doesn't seem like that big a deal. English system tends
to have units appropriate to the thing being weighed or measured.

scott s.
.

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