Re: man -t odd page size

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:23:10AM -1000, Al Plant wrote:

Valentin Bud wrote:
hello,
what do you know about this site: http://www.metricamerica.com/.
i don't remember where i have read that America is going to apply the SI
(ess eye)
unit system.
so things are going to change maybe even the A4 papersize.

a good day,
v
#########...

Aloha,

The Metric System has been a legal measure in the United States since
the 1860's.

There is nothing to stop anybody legally from using it.

Isn't it about time we dump the obsolete 'metric' system based on the
paltry base-10 arithmetic and move in to the future with a digitally
compatible system based on powers of 2! Divide the day in to 16 hours,
16 minutes per hour, 16 seconds per minute, 16 ??? per second (make up
a name), Divide the speed of light by a big power of 2 to get your base
measurement of length. Design 6 more digit symbols. Through away
some of the dross in plain ASCII and fit them in there.

Quit trying to force people to count on their fingers.

////jerry



In many places in the country both are used. Tue US Military uses
Metric. The film and Video industry for example. Here in Hawaii the
population is very diverse and most people have come from Metric
countries. If you have to ever work on maintaining equipment, mechanical
or electronic, here in the US, both tool sizes are a must. I had to
replace a storage battery yesterday on a clients Japanese Fork Lift and
the fasteners were all metric except for one battery terminal clamp.

I think the choice by locale for FreeBSD is an excellent solution.



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