> According to the U.S. General Accounting Office, roughly two-thirds of global industrial output remains based on customary specifications.

That would mean that (rougly) one-third of it is based on non-customary specs. That reminds me of the last umpteen times Denmark has had referendums regarding the EU, where a 50-and-a-bit % majority has been allowed to 'win'. Am I the only one whom this strikes as unjust? Of course the comparison to this case is flawed, because a 1/3-2/3 split in a referendum *would* be significant enough to declare a true winner, but I can't say that imperial units (I assume that this is what the "customary specifications" refer to) have 'won'. So I guess I'm just ramblin'...


> The article that contained this figure also claimed that significant other industries are only pseudo-metric: film companies relabeled 1-3/8" film as 35mm film without actually changing the size, in order to make it sound "more accurate."
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Insert a "some people never cease to amaze me with their stupidity"-comment of your own choice.
OK, so 1 3/8" is not *exactly* 35mm, but it's darn close. Actually, strictly mathematically, I'd say that a fraction is more accurate than a decimal, because fractions aren't rounded, whereas decimals have a built-in variation (is that the term?) caused by leaving out the next decimal: 35.0 is more accurate than 35, because the latter could just as well mean 35,1. But you'd never round 1 3.02/8 to 1 3/8.

> gab"We should convert to using cubits, ephahs, and shekels"by

jul"I say we go back to natural economy (term?): This 'unit'-thingy is clearly too complicated to comprehend"ian