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From: David L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu>
To: John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca>
Cc: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 3:31:24 PM
Subject: Re: kitr problem after R update.
On 02/18/2013 03:14 PM, John Kane wrote:
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> From: David L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu>
>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 11:06:00 AM
>Subject: Re: kitr problem after R update.
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>On 02/18/2013 10:53 AM, John Kane wrote:
>That's what I was thinking last night after I had closed down the computer.
>It does seem rather weird when almost no one uses Imperial measurements any
>more. Legacy issue I suppose?
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>Nobody? Nobody except your neighbors to the South. Not
that we call them "Imperial", that would be almost as
un-American as using the Godless metric system (yes,
that really is what many people here called it when
there was an abortive effort to convert, many years
ago).
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>Well there are a few misguided souls around still and I
still have cook books in Imperial. -- What do Americans
call their system anyway?
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"English", usually, even though the British have basically switched over.
>It is always a pleasure to try and figure out if a
gallon is Imperial (≈ 4.5 l or US (≈ 3.8 l)
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Is an Imperial gallon 5 pints, then? I think that is the only US use of the
term "Imperial" with respect to measurements.
No apparently there are 8 pints in an Imperial gallon according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint
US and Imperial pints aren't the same. Not that I would know the only time I
see a pint is when I'm in my local bar having a 20 fl oz (Imperial) pint of
beer. I don't think we, in Canada, use pints for anything else. I've been in
a commerical kitchen where there was mass confusion when a recipe called for x
pints of Y. No one had the slightest idea of what one looked like or what it
was in relation to a litre.
-- David L. Johnson It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis
can only be
cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot
cheaper than Maserattis and Ferraris. -- Glenn Davies
