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On 21 May 2008 19:04:55 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com>
wrote:
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>Is that weigh a pound, or cost a pound? ;-)
You would not believe the cost of water here, if you buy it in a
bottle. Not funny :(
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Stephen
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 18:02:15 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:
>And given how much longer Imperial measure has been around compared to
>Metric, I'd argue that it's the Europeans trying to abandon the
>Brits/Americans.
Yup, I think that it was that Napoleon chappie. What done it :)
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Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> You would not believe the cost of water here, if you buy it in a
> bottle. Not funny :(
Did you know, "Evian" spelled backwards is "naive"?
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And lo on Wed, 21 May 2008 18:02:31 +0100, Eero Ahonen
<aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> did spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>> Still amusing that a bi(mi)llion is officially a thousand million,
>> linguists of the future are going to have so much fun with this.
>
> In Finnish they are miljardi (1000 million) and biljoona (million
> million) to add some confusement :).
We did have milliard for 1e9 from the same French root until we took on
the US system.
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Invisible wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>
>> You would not believe the cost of water here, if you buy it in a
>> bottle. Not funny :(
>
> Did you know, "Evian" spelled backwards is "naive"?
>
Complete with the diaresis above the i, too.
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And lo on Thu, 22 May 2008 13:48:11 +0100, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom>
did spake, saying:
> On 21 May 2008 19:04:55 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is that weigh a pound, or cost a pound? ;-)
>
> You would not believe the cost of water here, if you buy it in a
> bottle. Not funny :(
Heh had a company selling the bottled water call up. "Pfft what's the
point in bottled water? We just tap water with a filter" I told him. "Yeah
to be honest that's what I've got, the stuff you get out of the tap's just
as good"
Weird I just seem to bring out the honesty in people :-P
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Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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And lo on Wed, 21 May 2008 20:47:41 +0100, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom>
did spake, saying:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 12:35:25 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
> wrote:
>
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> A million is a thousand times a thousand.
>>> A billion is a million times a million.
>>
>> You still stopped before "trillion". What's a trillion in the UK, then?
>
> So I did; a trillion is a million times a billion. Sorry see
or a tri-(mi)-llion
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And lo on Wed, 21 May 2008 20:44:56 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
did spake, saying:
> Stephen wrote:
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>> BTW a myriad is ten thousand .
>
> I'm told that in Old English or something, "severn" actually means
> "infinity". Or something like that.
No it's a river just over there [points] ;-)
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And lo on Wed, 21 May 2008 23:03:17 +0100, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom>
did spake, saying:
> On 21 May 2008 17:29:47 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
> We spell litre, l-i-t-r-e and metre m-e-t-r-e unless it is a gas meter
> then we spell it m-e-t-e-r. And that goes to the centre of the
> argument :P
That's so we can have a meter that measures in metres and not get
ourselves confused.
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Darren New wrote:
...
> Mils are only used in measuring things like the thickness of paper or
> cloth;
...
It is also used when designing printed circuit boards.
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Tor Olav
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