I'm puzzled by your reference to French Canadians. English
Canadians use
metric too.
You may be allowing yourself to be influenced by the practices of
some
manufacturers. My Black and Decker electric lawnmower,
for example, shows
blade size in inches in English and in centimeters in
It *could* be to cater to Canadians. In Miami there are imported European
metric-only speed limit signs (there are several just a few blocks from my
old house). A lot of French Canadians drive down to Miami (and pass through
the Carolinas), and the symbolic-style international format signs are
Did I accidently subscribe to the calender reform list? No...I don't think I
did. How did this get to my in-box? Gee. Yet ANOTHER calender message from
Brij! Argh.
-- Original Message ---
From: Brij Bhushan Vij [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL
When I took high school chemistry in 1967-68, I was encouraged to use a slide rule for
calculations. Not many students got the hang of it, which hang was not much more
than facility in placing the decimal point. I was soon zinging through calculation
problems while others were scribbling and
