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Warp wrote:
> One thing I like about the metric system is that terms are always
> consistent and don't change meaning (and especially not amount) depending
> on what you are measuring.
True. It's certainly more consistent. I just find it a touch less
convenient in some cases.
> Of course since Americans have this obsession that they can't have
> *anything* the same as those pesky Europeans, they even had to change
> at least *something* of the metric system: To them it's litre, not
> liter (likewise metre instead of meter, etc).
Errrr, no, I don't think so. That's the Brits, not the Americans. :-)
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.
Technically, everything in the US is supposed to be on the metric
system, but the government has no right to enforce that for private
individuals, so imperial measures persist. Altho I understand that many
government contracts specify metric, so you wind up with 4.1 liters of
fluid held in a container constructed with 7.82 mm bolts. :)
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > One thing I like about the metric system is that terms are always
> > consistent and don't change meaning (and especially not amount) depending
> > on what you are measuring.
> True. It's certainly more consistent. I just find it a touch less
> convenient in some cases.
I can't even begin to imagine how consistency can be less convenient
in any case.
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- Warp
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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 :(
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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:
>
>> 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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