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Jim Holsenback wrote:
> You know what I find odd is that lumber and plumbing pipe is still sold by
> inches and feet, (government projects get converted) but
> temp/rain/snowfall, highway signs, and liquid measure are metric. Is anyones
> system mixed like that?
Well, airplane stuff still uses feet everywhere (and english for ATC,
etc). Which is why the Mars probe crashed.
In China, apparently there's a "chinese foot" that's a third of a meter,
a "chinese inch" that's 2 cm, and a few other things like that. Metric
approximations to empirical units. Which I thought was pretty funky.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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