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Metric system (was OOXML gets ISO approval)

Posted Apr 3, 2008 20:47 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Metric system (was OOXML gets ISO approval) by moreati
Parent article: OOXML gets ISO approval

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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