To: Junior
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Maynard argues metrics is simpler because it's based on powers of 10...."Maybe so, but it can't be divided by 3.
It makes no difference to me personally, but have you ever considered the overwhelmingly gargantuan task it would be to convert the legal description of every miniscule plot of land in America to the metric system? Our entire country has been surveyed based upon a 5280 foot mile.
Think about it!
To: nightdriver
"Our entire country has been surveyed based upon a 5280 foot mile."
Are you sure none of it was surveyed in Statute miles (whatever they are?) Or Nautical miles? At least there's only one variety of metre, and one kind of hectare.
103 posted on
05/15/2006 11:55:40 AM PDT by
-YYZ-
To: nightdriver
"It makes no difference to me personally, but have you ever considered the overwhelmingly gargantuan task it would be to convert the legal description of every miniscule plot of land in America to the metric system? Our entire country has been surveyed based upon a 5280 foot mile.
Think about it!"
I know almost nothing about computer programming and I could write a small program that did exactly that, and I could write it in 15 minutes.
120 posted on
05/15/2006 12:19:29 PM PDT by
RHINO369
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