The company I work for puts out a daily message about the state of the reservation system. Item 6 is often a bit of interesting information, not necessarily related to the reservation system. Heres what the author (not me, Im not a techie) wrote today.
Impressive, considering that there are other parts of the company that want nothing to do with metric. (But they have allowed me my way with timetable information.) Carleton Arrow Morning Meeting September 21, 2009 (big snip) Other Points of Interest Why would we want the metric system? Let's face it: The metric system is the better system! Why better? Because it's so much simpler and easier to use. The metric system is an improvement over the English system in three major points: 1. One unit of measurement for each physical quantity. No matter from which other quantities of the SI system derived, yields always the same unit. 2. Scalability by prefixes - combinations of prefix and unit make for a plethora of convenient combined units. 3. Decimal system - fractions are expressed in decimal notation. Not only makes this the notation unique, exhaustive and intuitively comparable, but also allows unit conversion without doing math - simply by shifts of the decimal point. For Additional information and details go to à METRIC 4 US <http://www.metric4us.com/why.html>
