Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
11 Oct 1995 14:01:38 -0400
In article <459lra$fag@cnn.Princeton.EDU>,
<jrhodes@pupgg.princeton.edu> wrote:
>Once again, you are confusing the words "Andrew Grygus" and
>"everyone." Maybe you never have occaision to convert units.
>Scientists and engineers do it all the time. People at the store
>might want to convert ounces to pounds (which is harder than
>grams to kilos) to compare prices.
They're likely in 13.5 ounce and 16 ounce containers that have to be compared
(and are probably unit priced anyway).
>I bet even you, if you were
>intelligent enough to get a drivers license, might want to
>convert driving distances to driving times. It is all easier in
>metric.
Converting miles and miles per hour to hours is no harder than doing the same
for kilometers and kilometers per hour.
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Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, karromde@nyx.cs.du.edu;
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~arromdee)
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