Re: [GZG] [FT] Cancon 2006 Random Observations

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOf course the US
isn't going to go metric.  We're waiting on a system where
all
the fundamental constants are 1.  It also needs to use base 2 instead of
a
humanocentric base 10.	:)

Roger

On 2/1/06, Jerry Han <jhan@warpfish.com> wrote:
>
> Hugh Fisher wrote:
> > Something this old fogey hadn't really noticed before is that kids
> > have no idea how many inches there are in a foot. I'd brought along
> > my trusty tape measure, which is old enough to vote and restarts
> > numbering after each foot. So I'd say "You have to be within 18
> > inches to be in range" and they'd just look at it blankly.
>
> You know, this brings to mind a curiousity question -- what nations
are
> left that would still have reasonable facility with Imperial?  Canada
> switched over to Metric almost thirty years ago now, but, because our
> trade is so tied in to the United States, we still have to know
Imperial
> distance measurement pretty well.  And, the United States hasn't
> converted,
> obviously (and probably never will.)	I presume most of Europe is
metric,
> and stayed there -- and the UK converted relatively recently, so it's
> still mixed, right?
>
> JGH
> --
> Jerry Han - jhan@warpfish.com - http://www.warpfish.com/jhan -
TBFTGOGGI
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falling
> all day long; what else is new? What can I do? But sing this Valley
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