Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Format units question
From: c.blaue@bmsg.de
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:52:05 +0200
 
Glen M Robinson <gmrobinson@imation.com> writes:

     > I have always wondered when the rest of the world will abandon the
     > obsolete metric system and move to the modern English system.

     > Seriously now.  The English system has its faults, but it is based on
     > human experiences so it is easy to relate to. 

Thanks for the all the infos. I will buy my paper from now on by the inch.

I like the view from the human reception of things. However I like a decimal
system too, although when it gets to smaller units I think rather in 'natural'
fractions than in decimal ones. 

christoph