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Re: Numbers and units.
Posted By: julian, on host 130.225.102.201
Date: Wednesday, September 8, 1999, at 06:11:38
In Reply To: Re: £ and ¢ posted by Darien on Thursday, September 2, 1999, at 09:17:14:

> > > > > Maybe if you're about 5" shorter than Sam, 130 lbs would be okay, I guess...
> > > >
> > > > When did I post my height here?
> > >
> > > Beats me. But I'm 5'5", which makes me just about ideal weight, I think. A bit on the thin side, but not much.
> >
> > Er.... That would make you about 5" shorter than me. I will not think about how weird this is. I won't.
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> Fnord!
>
> Dar "Did you notice how many fives are involved in that, too?" ien

Tomorrow is the 9th day of the 9th month, year 19999 ... make that 1999.

Say, why should a week be 7 days? I say we start using decadays in stead. While we're at it, a day could be 10 hours, which should be 10 minutes, etc. Of course, you'd want a pay rise if you're paid by the hour.

BTW, if anyone thinks it difficult to have metric and imperial units, I'd like to comfort you that there are worse. For instance, in electromagnetics, there is the Gaussian/CGS units, which, to convert into SI units (aka the metric system), you need the numbers 4*pi and the speed of light (in centimetres per second, no less). And (worse) you need to know where to put it.