Tony Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The US of course still use Queen Anne's gallon which the Imperial > system replaced with a larger unit later on. We often forget this > when comparing fuel prices.
> Tony Moss I guess one could say that Queen Anne's gallon has outlived the imperial gallon which was supposed to replace it... When people get in a huff about how backwards we Americans are for still using inches, pounds, & c., I like to reply that the SI still uses the second which is also a ridiculous unit of measure. Quantum units are natural units, but perhaps it's not the most convenient to measure distances in compton radii. The radian is a natural measure of angle, but I would suppose everyone subscribing to this list uses degrees, minutes, and seconds. For example, I haven't seen any of the recent discussion about human visual acuity conducted in terms of radians. Jim 40N45, 111W53 =-= Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. -- Thomas Hardy
