[GreenKeys] The Metric System (was Independence Day

[Nick England]

Happy 16 Messidor CCXXV to all..
At the sound of the tone, Parisian Decimal Time is 6h46m99s

I am happy that French Republican timekeeping didn't catch on like their
metric system.

Nick
<http://www.navy-radio.com>

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> The thing about older systems of measurement is that despite the apparent
> lack of logic and precision, they were developed naturally over thousands
> of years to meet real needs of real people.  The metric system was devised
> in a short period of time by a committee motivated somewhat by
> revolutionary giddiness.
>
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