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: 1995-01-31 03:18:21 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Date: 31 Jan 1995 06:18:21 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3gl69t$nm8@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3fmvuk$5mb@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com> <3g94oi$sro@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3gf2fd$h0l@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1995-01-31T06:18:21-05:00 List-Id: Regarding the idiotic sign on the highway (km to three decimal places): Clive Cussler in his latest novel (Inca Gold) has DIrk Pitt use metric for all his measurements ("he looked ahead and about three meters away ...") Every reference is followed by in parentheses the equivalent US measure often with excessive decimal places in the same irritating manner (so for example the above three meters becomes .. three meters (9.7 feet)) The worst case is a reference to square meters which gets translated to square feet without bothering to notice that the conversion factor needs to be squared in this case. I assume it was some idiot copy editor who insisted on this annoying nonsense.