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.


-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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