The politically correct term might be "legacy" units, though antiquated,
medieval, pre-industrial, and byzantine all seem more accurate.
I live in the US and am thus stuck with such units -- whatever one calls
them. When in engineering school I found that a decent HP calculator
made crazy units pretty much immaterial, though. Unfortunately it's my
understanding that HP pretty much lost the high-end calculator market
since I moved on into software -- or have I heard wrong? [My HP 48SX
still works pretty nicely over 20 years later :-)]
On 1/22/2013 1:33 PM, Robert Casto wrote:
Hopefully you understand that the word "hillbilly" can be offensive to
people?
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Simon Ochsenreither
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
I adopted the term “hillbilly units” as an umbrella term for all
these different kinds of measurement units which are normally used
by a combination of the US and another random third-world country,
and it has made it considerably easier in those situations where
one wants to refer to all those measurements not directly derived
from the SI units, but where one doesn't actually care about which
non-standard system it is exactly.
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