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Higgs Boson wrote:
On Saturday, November 16, 2013 5:59:10 PM UTC-8, David Hare-Scott
wrote:
Gus Overton wrote:
On Saturday, November 16, 2013 6:04:08 PM UTC-5, David Hare-Scott
I wonder if you two are talking about degrees C, degrees F or one
of
each.......
Only use US American degrees where I live.
There is no such scale and this is not where you live but an
international
forum. It is peculiar to the USA that so many citizens think what
they do
is normal, even universal, but in fact it is not so. Just as we
need to
allow for differences in gardening custom ( eg, naming plants such as
pumpkins) I think being explicit about measurements is useful for
good
communications.
Many years ago the US made a half-assed attempt to join the metric
world. Road signs were po$ted with mile$ and kilometer$. Of course
people took the easy way out and the experiment faded away.
Apparently in the USA metric is approved but not compulsory (or traditional
measures are not forbidden) consequently there is no money available for
conversion and education costs so nothing is done.
OZ did the right thing; went cold turkey overnight. The adults seem
to have managed to survive with metric, and the kids never knew
anything else.
Correct. It wasn't really such a big deal.
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