Ezra Steinberg wrote:

> It may not be as elegant as using the nearest submultiple to allow for a
> single digit to the left of the decimal point
> and not as much evidence of one's facility with metric prefixes by moving
> decimal points and swapping prefixes, but
> it does prevent a strong psychological push out of Imperial and into
metric usage.

Typo, alas. I meant to write "it does present a strong psychological push
out of Imperial ... "

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