Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Matthew Hunt (hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu)
9 Oct 1995 11:30:13 GMT
Joseph Askew (jbask1@MFS06.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
> In article <459uep$14pg@hearst.cac.psu.edu> hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu (Matthew Hunt) writes:
>
> >On the highway, it takes about a minute to drive a mile. Too hard?
>
> Driving between Adelaide and Melbourne it takes less than
> a minute to drive two kilometres. What is hard about that?
Absolutely nothing. However, the article to which I responded suggested
that the metric system is superior for making this conversion. My point was
that even in the English system, the conversion is trivial.
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