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

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In article <1995Oct4.185025.13483@unislc.slc.unisys.com> Slartibartfast Beeblebrox <sbeeble@tang.sirius-freenet.com> writes:
>We have this system had for millenia now. We don't have these fiendish
>fractions even, since we everything in base 287.79 do, which to be the
>number of days in our year happens.

And what base do you use to calculate how many times to post one article?

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