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Metric system (was OOXML gets ISO approval)Metric system (was OOXML gets ISO approval)Posted Apr 3, 2008 20:39 UTC (Thu) by moreati (guest, #5715)In reply to: Metric system (was OOXML gets ISO approval) by nix Parent article: OOXML gets ISO approval
We also buy our milk and beer in multiples of 0.568261485 litres, for some quaint historic reason. Incidentally, until now I never knew there is both a US pint & a UK (aka imperial) pint.
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Metric system (was OOXML gets ISO approval) Posted Apr 3, 2008 20:47 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Oh indeed. That sort of wild regional variability (same names, different units) is why the French came up with the metric system in the first place...
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