On Sep 15, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:
The only thing natural about the metric system is that humans have
ten fingers and the quadrant of the Earth something approximating
10 megameters.
The latter was an artificial and deliberate design choice. Nothing
natural about it.
Some would say the same about the former :-)
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