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Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, September 28, 1998, 8:02
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. -- If God had meant for us to use the metric system, there would've been 10 disciples - anonymous http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ ICQ #: 18656696 AOL screen-name: NikTailor