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Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Alan Braggins (armb@setanta.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:07:29 GMT
In article <45m688$88v@hermes.cair.du.edu> ruhl@phoebe.cair.du.edu (Robert A. Uhl) writes:
> >
> >The "modern" Imperial system has of course the advantage that it's
> >decimal: a gallon of water weighs 10 pounds.
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> 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.
>
Its been over 40 years since converting from binary to decimal for the
convenience of humans was considered a waste of valuable machine
time. If your computer really has difficulty converting, you need a
new computer more urgently than a new measurement system.
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