is binary, look at the measures from 1 oz to 1 quart and think about it a while, I'll bet you
can see the exceptions right away), but it's based on a binary pattern.
At 06:57 PM 2/27/2003 -0800, you wrote:
"Ryan K. Brooks" wrote: > > Keith Whaley wrote: > > I'm aware of that, Cot, but I wonder from whence it came? > > The U.S. has only used that convention for a reasonably short time ~ > > 10 years maybe? > > Recall that we're still on English units as well.
Tell me what English units from which 1 and 0 (or is it really I and O?) come...
Keith
> > Had to have had a source, and meant something... > > > > keith > >
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