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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 1995-01-28 10:53:32 PST Path: swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uunet!zib-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!marvin.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news From: paus@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Date: 28 Jan 1995 13:41:57 GMT Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Distribution: world Message-ID: <3gdhj5$1gbk@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <3gbs98$47f@network.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: paus@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Host: ifr16.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de Date: 1995-01-28T13:41:57+00:00 List-Id: In article <3gbs98$47f@network.ucsd.edu> mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes: > David Weller (dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote: > All science (which demands international collaboration), > and most higher-tech engineering is metric. That's complete nonsense! As you can see in my signature at the bottom I am in the aerospace business. In almost all american scientific publications you will find all sorts of stupid units. Mixtures of nautical miles, feet, inches ... sometimes to be used in a single formula. Sorry but I could not resist because I have to fight with these units almost every day. -- |----------------------------------------------------------------------| |Dipl.-Ing. Michael Paus (Member: Team Ada) | |University of Stuttgart, Inst. of Flight Mechanics and Flight Control | |Forststrasse 86, 70176 Stuttgart, Germany | |Phone: (+49) 711-121-1434 FAX: (+49) 711-634856 | |Email: Michael.Paus@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (NeXT-Mail welcome)|