On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 02:09:58 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com>: > >> Ah, the machinations that users of imperial units have to endure. > > Europeans often mistakenly believe that Americans haven't yet adopted > the SI units. They have: > > - the length of a ski is measured in centimeters > > - the width of film and the diameter of a gun barrel are measured in > millimeters > > - the wavelength of visible light is measured in nanometers > > - the volume of a soda bottle is measured in liters > > - a quantity of confiscated narcotics is measured in kilograms > > - daily allowance of a vitamin is measured in milligrams > > - the pitch of a note is measured in hertz > > - a short timespan is measured in seconds > > > So the problem Europeans have with the situation is *not* the lack of > adoption of new units. Rather, it is the refusal of giving up the > traditional units. > > The Anglo-American culture is notorious for its eagerness to absorb > foreign influences. What it abhors is reductionism. There is always room > for more words, ideas, mores, inventions, but nothing is ever deprecated > with a simple edict. > > > Marko
One of my biggest questions since the Brexit vote is can we g back to using imperial weights & measures (please). -- Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. -- Ambrose Bierce -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
