Gary Smith wrote in a message to Doran Moppert:
  > America of cou
  > which seems to like arbitrary scales =)
 GS> Other arbitrary units of measurement are meters, grams, and 
 GS> Centigrade degrees, which Americans don't care for at all.
Of course all units of measurement are arbitrary to a certain degree, but at 
least these units have logical relations to each other; for example one kg is 
the mass of 1 liter of clean water, one Newton is the force required to give 
an object of 1 kg mass an acceleration of 1 meter per second, etc.
The fact that (most/some/all - pick one) Americans don't care for it, IMO 
says nothing about the quality of the system (actually, it might be an 
argument pro ;-) ).
Allright, allright; back to assembly language now...
greetz,
Tom
tomtorfs@mail.dma.be
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