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Re: Horsepower (was Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))Phil Gustafson (phil@panix.com)18 Oct 1995 22:29:54 -0400
Jacques Guy <jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au> wrote:
>Much later, I read (I think it was in New Scientist), that
Except that a horsepower is, according to the OED, "commonly taken
No, it doesn't say whether it's 1 1/2 Shetland ponies or 1 1/2 great
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Phil
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