On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:21:48 Howard Ressel wrote: >Please explain, good sir, why this issue should be debated on a metric list? Yes >money is measured in units of 100 but the similarity ends their. My dearest Howard, thank you so kindly for being so nice to treat me as "good sir", I really appreciated it! :-) I wish more people were as polite and considerate as you have been in putting up with me. Now, please allow me to explain why I felt this would be an appropriate forum for such debate. Money is indeed "decimal", but it's also a unit of measurement, if one stops to think for a moment. It measures the value of goods and services around us. Pity that something called inflation screws that up!... :-S More below. We should concentrate on metric issues that mean something.... Please keep the list to metric issues only. >... Metrication is also about implementing a system that would bring progress to a people using it. As a consequence, while I deeply respect your opinion, I see no harm in trying to devise and debate means that would help accomplish that by bringing it "down to the people's level", so to speak. I'd like to believe that most of the success of metrication around the world can be attributed to the successful use of decimal currencies. People learned to appreciate the simplicity and many advantages that decimal frameworks bestow upon things. If the use of coin denominations like I described could make that fact even more attractive to people, why not, right? It was in that spirit that I launched this debate. I just felt that shifting the coin system to be more in line with decimal principles could help our cause immensely. In any case, I apologise if this subject seemed somewhat... "far fetched" for you. I do hope though that such debate will not take too much space here in the end, ok? Best regards, my friend. Marcus Who needs Cupid? Matchmaker.com is the place to meet somebody. FREE Two-week Trial Membership at http://www.matchmaker.com/home?rs=200015
