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Article #8891Olde Tyme Measurements (No wonder the world is eating our lunch)
From: MacLeod
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 19:26
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 19:26
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gatech.EDU> Sender: Reply-To: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA Keywords: In article <7761@pyr.gatech.EDU: ccoprmd@pyr.UUCP (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes: :In article <3276@nunki.usc.edu: sawant@nunki.usc.edu (Abhay Sawant) writes: ::AAAARGH!!!!! Why so many people here using fps? I thought higher ::education in the US used SI only. : :Nope. My aerospace engineering courses use FPS routinely. I hate it. WHAT? Say it ain't so. They're probably expounding phylogiston theory over in the chem labs and trying to find the aether in the physics department. It's no forking wonder that US students rank so far behind other countries' graduates. Michael Sloan MacLeod (amdahl!drivax!macleod)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!amdahl!drivax!macleod From: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Olde Tyme Measurements (No wonder the world is eating our lunch) Message-ID: <4463@drivax.UUCP> Date: 31 Mar 89 19:26:09 GMT References: <290@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <1098@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <296@v7fs1.UUCP> <5849@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> <1989Mar26.003753.11770@utzoo.uucp> <5853@pdn.paradyne.com> <24998@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1989Mar28.173557.21601@utzoo.uucp> <3276@nunki.usc.edu> <7761@pyr. Lines: 21