Actually, that's watt, not Watt. The names of SI units are not capitalized.

Bill
(Emerging from a long hibernation away from this list)

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Subject: [USMA:37737] Car Talk Puzzler


Here's the complete text of the Car Talk Puzzler that Howard  
commented on recently.

Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA

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Ray said:

"In the good old USA we still use something called the "British"  
system of measurement, i.e., the mile, the gallon, the bushel, the  
inch, the rod, while practically the entire rest of the world has  
embraced the elegant simplicity of the metric system.

"As you would expect American car manufacturers used the British  
system until globalization infiltrated the marketplace and forced  
them to adopt the metric system. Well, nowadays every American  
manufacturer uses the metric system almost exclusively. So that  
practically every fastener--you know nuts and bolts and whatnot--is  
measured in millimeters and even torque specifications are now given  
in Newton-meters and not foot-pounds.

"I travel quite a bit and I spend a lot of time in Bucharest,  
Romania, where they most likely have never heard of the British  
system of measurement. While being chauffeured around town one day  
and sitting in in traffic, I noticed something interesting. I noticed  
that every car from the lowly Dacia, where none of the body parts  
quite fit, to the high-end Mercedes, is using the British system of  
measurement. That's right, there's something on all of these cars,  
that is not metric. What is it?

"I'm going to give you a hint. Your Toyota or your Volvo or any car  
that you drive in the United States might have the same part that's  
not metric; that is, it's using the British system of measurement."

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