7 May
2006
7 May
'06
13:36
James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Not if you try to put a nut made in, say, France or Spain, to a bolt made in Britain :-P It's the same problem, but on a different scale.
Well, the French being what they are, ensure nothing fits their stuff. ;-)
Perhaps just for completeness - the French actually made sure that everything fits by being a major driving force being the SI (aka "Metric") system of units. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI (lots of interesting information, worth a read). AFAIK, the old platinum/iridium standard 1 meter was/is kept in a vault in Paris? /Per Jessen, Zürich