From: nebbe@lglsun.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe)
Subject: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99
Date: 27 Jan 1995 14:04:17 GMT
Date: 1995-01-27T14:04:17+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1995Jan27.145656@lglsun.epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3g8v5r$467@rational.rational.com
In article <3g8v5r$467@rational.rational.com>, davidm@rational.com (David Moore) writes:
|>
|> [Anyway, I have never understood why the founding fathers did not throw off
|> the Imperial system of measure when they threw off the Imperial yoke. The
|> French found the need to replace their system of measure along with their
|> system of government]
The US adopted the French system of naming large numbers (million = 10^6,
billion = 10^9, trillion = 10^12 ...) only to have the French abandon
it later to adopt the system used by Germany and England (million = 10^6,
billion = 10^12, trillion = 10^18 ...).
This leads one to ask the question: if the US had adopted the metric
system would the French latter have changed to the English system? :-)
Robb Nebbe
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-01-20 0:25 Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Garlington KE
1995-01-21 0:27 ` Keith Thompson
1995-01-21 17:30 ` Tucker Taft
1995-01-23 15:36 ` Garlington KE
1995-01-24 19:01 ` Robert A Duff
1995-01-25 16:09 ` Michel Gauthier
1995-01-26 1:05 ` Matt Kennel
1995-01-26 20:03 ` David Moore
1995-01-27 14:04 ` Robb Nebbe [this message]
1995-01-27 19:03 ` Michel Gauthier
1995-01-29 16:47 ` Michael Feldman
1995-01-30 22:53 ` Jules
1995-02-01 12:51 ` Christopher Costello
1995-01-28 6:06 ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-30 5:21 ` Michael Feldman
1995-01-28 2:32 ` Michael Feldman
[not found] ` <3g94oi$sro@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
1995-01-29 3:36 ` Michael Feldman
1995-01-31 11:18 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <EACHUS.95Jan27144621@spectre.mitre.org>
1995-01-29 16:53 ` Michael Feldman
1995-01-30 12:54 ` NOthing to do with Ada anymore (Re: Metrics) David Weller
1995-02-02 8:54 ` Fredrick Mbuya
1995-01-30 14:58 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Tarjei Jensen
1995-01-31 9:47 ` request Ada cource plan (was: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99) Sverre Brubaek
1995-02-01 23:33 ` David Weller
1995-01-30 22:59 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Jules
1995-01-26 12:25 ` Olaf Weber
[not found] <3gbs98$47f@network.ucsd.edu>
1995-01-28 13:41 ` paus
1995-01-29 22:30 ` David Weller
1995-01-31 16:10 ` paus
1995-01-30 5:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-31 2:39 ` celier
1995-01-31 10:49 ` Michel Gauthier
1995-01-31 14:39 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-02-01 23:04 ` Matt Kennel
1995-01-31 7:40 ` R_Tim_Coslet
1995-01-30 17:52 ` Peter Hermann
1995-02-01 3:28 ` Michael Feldman
1995-02-01 12:16 ` Peter Hermann
1995-02-01 20:12 ` Robert Firth
1995-02-02 8:34 ` paus
1995-02-08 4:26 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1995-02-01 15:05 CONDIC
1995-02-01 20:01 ` Jim Rogers
[not found] ` <D3E467.MLs@thomsoft.com>
[not found] ` <3h30fs$50a@felix.seas.gwu.edu>
1995-02-06 15:27 ` Robert Dewar
1995-02-07 16:19 CONDIC
1995-02-10 0:51 ` Robert I. Eachus
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