From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19812cdb56d31fbd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-27 06:04:17 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!gw1.att.com!fnnews.fnal.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!news.oleane.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!centre.univ-orleans.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!epflnews!dinews.epfl.ch!lglsun!nebbe From: nebbe@lglsun.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Date: 27 Jan 1995 14:04:17 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Sender: nebbe@lglsun3.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1995Jan27.145656@lglsun.epfl.ch> References: <3g6sgi$q6b@network.ucsd.edu> <3g8v5r$467@rational.rational.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lglsun3.epfl.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 1995-01-27T14:04:17+00:00 List-Id: 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