Yes, even Wall Street has gone 'metric'. It must have been hell working
with fractions of fractions working out small stock price increments.
That's progress.
Mike
Perth, Australia
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 2:03 AM
Subject: [USMA:21945] La Grande metrication
2002 August 26
On July 22 I ordered “La Grande Metrication” from the Tattered Cover Book
Store in Denver, Colorado. I received it on August 24.
The total cost was $22.58 which included $5.00 for shipping.
It is a good read, folks. Try it. You will like it.
It has a summary of number systems, showing why decimal was such a big deal
at the time decimal metric was started. Now we use so much decimal that we
do not realize what a change the decimal metric system was.
Robert Bushnell
