Paul, sir:
Meters would replace feet and yards, while centimeters would replace
inches....!
It is the desire to convert and make America a METRIC nation.
Conversion: 5yd 2ft 7in ={5*0.9144+2*0.3048+7*0.0254] m=5.3594 m
I am sure it is NOT difficult if the WILL is there.
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From: "Paul Trusten, R.Ph." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:36417] metric system is no joke in Indiana
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:53:58 -0600
Dear Mr. Dickson,
I read with interest the story on your radio station's pulling an Orson
Welles-style announcement concerning the metric system in Indiana for April
Fool's Day
(http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060331/News01/60331008).
True, the current orientation of the American public is to laugh at any
possible
changeover to the metric system of measurement, but I assure you that it is
no
joke.
In 1988, federal law established the metric system as the preferred system
of
measurement for trade and commerce in the U.S.
Also, your state is one of 46 states that now allow certain state-regulated
products to be labeled in metric units only.
And even our late president, Ronald Reagan, was "thinking metric" with some
tongue-in-cheek accuracy when he said, "I'm 75 years old, but that's only
24
Celsius."
One day, Indiana will "wake up" to find itself a metric state, but only
after
the completion of a coordinated, national changeover period that will
involve
the other 49 states, too.
Thank you for a clever radio event.
Sincerely,
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Editor, "Metric Today"
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
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