2002-01-06 I don't think this author is anti-metric. He seems to use it exclusively in his articles. As for the "corruption" he mentions with the metric prefixes in computer technology, that can be attributed to him not knowing the new binary prefixes. If you look at the "Copyright (c) 1998 Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved", you will see it has been on the web since 1998. I think the binary prefixes were, as they still are today, relatively unknown. You may wish to return to that page and contact the author and see if he is willing to update his page in order to give some publicity to the binary prefixes.
John ----- Original Message ----- From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2002-01-05 21:02 Subject: [USMA:17247] Duodecimal System > This website explains the duodecimal system. > > http://www.friesian.com/quanta.htm#twelve > > Only the fractions like 1/3, 1/4, 1/6 are easy. > But look at the multiplications given in the table (at > the bottom). > Its horrrible and confuuusing. > > In a day to day life, we do more multiplications like > how many eggs are in 3 packets, > if 1 way fare is 2.30, how much is 2 way fare, etc. > > Only advantage with duodecimal is that it reduces the > number of digits like A=10, B=11, etc. > > If you want to reduce digits in decimal system, then > you are free to use D for 10, H for 100, K for 1000, > etc. > > But think of writing numbers in sentences. > To say that > I bought ten cans of soda, I should write > A cans of soda. Does this look nice. > > Dont jump into a weird system. > > The guy who maintains this website should be > anti-metric. If you go little above in the webpage, > he argues that computers have defied metric system. > > Madan > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ >
