On Wednesday 25 October 2006 05:07, Edward Dekkers wrote: > The only thing that really gets me is that to me, metric seems so > logical. 10 millimetres to a centimetre, 100 centimetres to a metre, > 1000 metres to a kilometre etc. > Precisely - with 10 digits on each hand and foot, what else should we use? :-) > 12 inches is a foot > 16 ounces is a pound > > ??? > Oh, we can do much better than that, if you look at the whole caboodle of historic weights and measures. > AND the imperial gallon seems to be different to the US Gallon as far as > I understand. > Yup. > I don't even want to know how many feet to a yard (it must be less than > three and a bit feet coz that's roughly a metre). > That's easy - just 3 feet to the yard. > P.S. Don't even get me started on the US having the month then day then > year for displaying dates. I don't get that either but caused quite a > bit of confusion when we were over there. Until you want to sort by date order, then year, month, day makes sense. Anne
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