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If God had intended for man to use the metric system,
Jesus would have only had ten disciples.

mad

From: Dave Bell
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Newsgroups: rec.ponds
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:50:12 -0800
Subject: OT _ The French Are What?

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, mad wrote:

mad
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Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one?


Well, if anyone had listened to a particular crac... I mean visionary
person, back about 20 years ago, it would be! Guy figured it would be the
best thing in the world to teach everyone to count and compute in
hexadecimal (base 16, for non geeks), rather than decimal (base 10). There
actually are advantages, but I kinda doubt it will ever catch on...

Dave





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