In a message dated Wed, 14 Feb 2001  9:52:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, "kilopascal" 
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From: "jpcarette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, 2001-02-14 09:39
Subject: Re: Well, damn it, NASA ought to be metr [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric
America]


> No problem in any country in Europe and most probably in the world. You
can also see it from the Windows Regional setting. Note that to start with
the year is logical as it is like the way we write or say numbers, the high
order digits are always on the left.
> 1022 is one thousand twenty two (but in Dutch it would be een duizend twee
en twentig, so here it is illogical. Same for German). Gee computers will
never replace men, no machine can match this kind of behavior !!!
>

Well, no more so than the French, where 96 = four twenties plus sixteen.

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