Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Erik Weimer (weimere.itg.bicc.ohsu@ohsu.edu)
Tue, 17 Oct 1995 01:09:23 GMT
In article <45mpir$1hu@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> t08o@europa.sun.csd.unb.ca (Keith Morrison) writes:
>From: t08o@europa.sun.csd.unb.ca (Keith Morrison)
>Subject: Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
>Date: 13 Oct 1995 22:35:07 GMT
>From: ruhl@phoebe.cair.du.edu (Robert A. Uhl)
>Message-ID: <45ku8c$cjs@hermes.cair.du.edu>
>>
>> And horsepower is only used for engines, like candlepower is for
>>lightbulbs. Horsepower is the pulling power of one horse. A 128 hp
>>engine is like being pulled by 128 horses. Nice.
>Arabians? Shetland ponies? Palaminos? Draft? Could you be a little
>more specific?
English.
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