On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.arib...@free.fr> wrote: > Bonjour,
allo albert. i found the 2 frida LCDs btw. > <nag mode ON> > > OTOH, we French have primed the use of the metric system before 1800 > while even today the British and Americans (among others) insist on > using some imperial system(s). :) > > </nag> haha yeah in electronics they use mm *and* mil (thousands of an inch) - i use both (!) regularly in the electronics designs i'm doing... blergh... > (I can't help smiling every time I re-read the footnote in _Good Omens_ > about the old British currency system and how the Brits considered the > decimal currency system /too complicated/ to adopt.) oo, oo, i remember! well, it's true. 12 you can count on the knuckles of four fingers, and it divides cleanly by 2, 3, 4 *and* 6! 12 is a coool number... l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
