Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Tommie Powell wrote:
> > 102400 = 2^10 x 10^2, so what's the disagreement about?  Do you think it's
> > immoral to combine the binary and decimal systems?
>
> I'm sure that's co-incidence.  I doubt our ancestors how ever many
> hundreds of years ago were thinking of binary when they created our
> measuring system.
Then there's acres, 640 per sq mile IIRC ...
Heading out to my back 40 now to plow up some code.