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Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 18-Jan-90 Re: ruler.ps - an
inch/poin.. Woodrow Baker@rpp386.cac (1032)

> In article <kZgrwXq00VswQCglNy@andrew.cmu.edu>, jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu
> (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes:
> > This discussion is getting really silly.
> > 
> > Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 16-Jan-90 Re: ruler.ps - an
> > inch/poin.. Woodrow Baker@rpp386.cac (1309)
> > 
> > > I'm curious.  What is the measurement name for the metric system, and
> > > what measure does it use. 
> > 
> > 
> > The metric system has as measurement name meter and deriverates, like
> > centimeter. It is exactly 1 meter long.

> I know that.  PLEASE read messages in context.  I was asking what the name
> for the metric system of "points" was.  We call them points, and measure them
> in 1/100 ths of an inch.  What is the metric equivelent name, and is the
> measure
> given in mm, cm, dm, microns or just what.
> You are the second person to not read what was asked for, and make a
> comment.  One individual did read the message and understood it, out of
> the 3 people who have responded to this, it appears that this individual
> was the only one who read the message carefully.


It is getting even more silly then I thought it would.

Since I used the phrase ``metric system'' the first time in this
duscussion, everybody kind of accepted the intended meaning as ``the
system using SI units'', like meters. There is no point in this system,
so nobody can be confused whether one talks about Didot Points, American
Pica points or Floating Points.


Everybody gets the point?

	jaap