Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))

Robert A. Uhl (ruhl@phoebe.cair.du.edu)
13 Oct 1995 17:05:12 GMT

In article <45j9or$g5b@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Dr J.F. Harper <jfh3@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>The "modern" Imperial system has of course the advantage that it's
>decimal: a gallon of water weighs 10 pounds.

And the US version has the advantage that it is binary; a gallon of
water is 8 pounds. Rather simple for a computer to do the
calculation.

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