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- From: sturges@master.lds-az.loral.com (Jim Sturges)
- Subject: Re: Metric again
- Message-ID: <sturges-091192110833@158.185.20.239>
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- Organization: Loral Defense Systems - Arizona
- References: <17268@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov8.222219.14106@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:59:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.222219.14106@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, sl25@cus.cam.ac.uk
- (Steve Linton) wrote:
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- > In article <17268@mindlink.bc.ca>, Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
- > |> > John Roberts writes:
- > |> >
- > |> > By the way, I think you'll be much happier in the long run if you do your
- > |> > calculations in SI (metric) units. I often do simple calculations in
- > |> > standard
- > |> > units, but the tough problems are much more easily handled using SI.
- > |>
- > |>
- > |> I am delighted to find that NASA seem finally to be moving toward
- > |> metric, not just in theory but in reality. Ron Baalke's postings about
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- From the society for the preservation of purity in language.....
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- ALL measuring systems are "metric." What we're talking about is the
- difference between SI and English?
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- Thanks for letting me put my $.0256 in....
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