On 2001-03-09 07:58 -0500, James R. Frysinger wrote:
> OK. I confess. We, too, have some non-metric distance measures that
> may never go away: the "stone's throw" and the "hop, skip, and a jump".
They won't go away in Boulder. We have bus lines called the Hop, Skip,
Jump, (and also the Leap, and Bound -- http://www.rtd-denver.com/).
There are plenty of wonderful ways of preserving the interesting history
of units without continuing to use them in daily life, nursery rhymes
being a good example.
Bruce
