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[Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 15:24 -0500, James Knott wrote:

> What rubbish!  Precision is precision, no matter what system you use. 
> How does it make a difference whether or not you use the metric system? 
> I guess the rest of the world can't build houses or bake a cake.  I
> don't recall ever seeing a metric or imperial chicken.  Try telling the
> French they don't know how to cook.  (Try telling them anything for that
> matter.  <g>)
> 
> One huge advantage to the metric system is the abandonment of hoary,
> arbitrary units in favour of a consistent and logical system.
> 
Like the hunk of rock which is the basis of the kilo which is stored in
switzerland since before WWII.

I agree about the french. 
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