On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM mick.crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2025-01-10 14:39, John Hasler wrote:
> > Tomas writes:
> >> Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch
> >> the US still on their Imperial measures,
> >
> > Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperial system.
> > We use both SI ("metric") and US Customary (the latter predates
> > Imperial).
> wasn't a defect in the Hubble telescope mirror caused by a
> misunderstanding between US/UK what units they were working in?Also see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider>. The plane took off with too little fuel due to a conversion error. The error was introduced using a value converted from pounds/litre instead of kilograms/litre. I also seem to recall Airbus had a problem with engine wiring harnesses due to conversions and rounding errors, but I can't find a reference. Jeff
