Re: [GZG] Pi Day

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:08:28PM +0000, Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
you still can't appreciate that the rest of the world uses *SI* 
>units, not "metric", which is a much vaguer collection

"Metric system" just means "a system of measurement". Like Microsoft's
"SQL Server", the people bringing in the new product used a name that
meant the whole class of products, to try to make people use it by
accident...

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