Bruce, The font on my browser barely makes that naked decimal visible. Another case for placing a zero before the decimal. For a minute it looked like 6.4 billion SI users vs 3 billion US users.
"There are 6.4 billion SI users vs .3 billion American Imperial users." Nice instructible, BTW. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:09 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Yea, it really gets my goat, this is what I propose... > http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Convert-USA-to-100-Metric-System/ > > Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr > Erie PA > Linux and Metric User and Enforcer > > > I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar > energy have you collected today? > Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope > we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish > I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ > > > > On Sep 7, 2011, *Parker Willey Jr.* <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a question about metric highway requirements. > > In this memorandum: > http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/contracts/1108metr.cfm > > Apparently, all state highway agencies have changed their internal > requirements to use only colonial units and not use metric at all. > > There seems to be a clarification probably to state highway departments. > It seems to say there is no requirement to use or to not use metric units. > Then, I assume that a state highway department can use metric in it's > designs if it wants to and still qualify for federal funding. > > Is that what I am seeing? > > I believe that when foreigners come to the US and see our peculiar colonial > highway measures, they then will not buy our products as they will probably > be not dimensioned in metric units. > > How can we push the highway departments to get on the metric system? Any > ideas? > > ...Parker > >
