Jerry, Crazy numbers? How old are you, Jerry? Many things were first invented and manufactured before any of us were born, before metric units were invented, and certainly, before the SI was first defined in 1960. How could these things have been created in round-number millimeter sizes before the millimeter was invented?
Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:17:04 -0800 (PST) >From: Jeremiah MacGregor <jeremiahmacgre...@rocketmail.com> >Subject: [USMA:42452] Re: A thin veneer of dishonesty >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> >Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> > > Brian, > > Wouldn't a metric inch be 25 mm, a metric foot be > 300 mm, and a metric mile 1600 m? > > Isn't a metric pound already used as 500 g in some > countries? So why do we have to have these crazy > numbers? > > Jerry
