Jim Elwell wrote in USMA 23862:
Just finished Ken Alder's book, The Measure of All Things. A very interesting and informative read, certainly *not* anti-metric in any way. Learned a bit more French from from it, too.
One issue got me thinking: some professions wanted a measurement standard based on 12, so that things could be easily divided into halves, quarters, thirds, etc.
As a former computer programmer I would like to put in a word for
base 8 or base 16 arithmetic.
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Joseph B. Reid
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Toronto M5P 1C8
Telephone 416-486-6071
17 Glebe Road West
Toronto M5P 1C8
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