On Wednesday 01 August 2001 07:26, David Walluck wrote:
> Hey... they have always made sense to me :) The British system is based on
> "real world" measurement. Metric system makes sense in science, but not to
> me anywhere else. I know I'd have a hard time changing being raised on the
> system and all, but the same could be said for you and the metric system
>
We were just having fun with words.
The meter is to my memory one 10 000 000:th part of the distance between the
north pole and the equator as determined in the late 18:th centuary after the
french revolution.
regards
guran
