Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

John Cowan wrote:

> Tom Wier wrote:
>
> > This is no wacky system here.  It's already in use in France, Germany,
> > and Italy, according to someone on this list (was it John?).   It simply
> > uses what we already have and regularizes it according to the metric
> > system used internationally.  If that is a stupid idea, then the Germans
> > and French and Italians are also stupid insofar as they use such a system.
>
> I understand entirely.  However, the old European units were not well
> standardized and were not the basis of a vast technical infrastructure
> that cannot be changed in periods less than decades.  The U.S. customary
> system is both.  That makes the possibilities of confusion
> for both consumers and producers immense.
I was not advocating that these be used in industry.  I discussed the
systems in Europe, thinking that it would be understood that, by mentioning
how those worked, that is also similar to how mine would work.  We are
blowing this way out of proportion to what I had originally intended.  The
confusion comes I guess in that the standards today are used for exactly
what you just said: everything, basically.   But I intended it only to be used
how those other cultures use them, in a limited manner.

Sorry for not being clear about this (though I had not intended to
go into so much detail about a little idea like this).

(BTW, I had noticed you seemed to know what was going on here,
and what I was saying in general, so thanks for your input)


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