From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99
Date: 8 Feb 1995 15:26:18 +1100
Date: 1995-02-08T15:26:18+11:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3h9h5a$2el@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3gmv5r$mba@felix.seas.gwu.edu
mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
>Those are _really_ English units. Robert, do the English ever still
>(informally) express their body weight in stones?
Can't speak for the British, but I was in hospital here in Melbourne last
month and the scales provided for the use of patients were calibrated
both in kilos and in stones. The stone is actually a very good unit of
measurement for human beings; an adult woman is typically about 10 stone,
so it's easy to comprehend how big a stone is and not too hard to make a
good estimate of a weight to the nearest stone.
--
"The complex-type shall be a simple-type." ISO 10206:1991 (Extended Pascal)
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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1995-01-28 13:41 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 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
1995-01-31 18:10 ` Decimal time - a correct proposal (Was Ada Doc .... ) David Moore
1995-02-01 9:51 ` Peter Hermann
1995-01-30 17:52 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 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 [this message]
1995-02-07 16:19 CONDIC
1995-02-10 0:51 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1995-02-01 15:05 CONDIC
1995-02-01 20:01 ` Jim Rogers
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1995-02-06 15:27 ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-20 0:25 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
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 14:58 ` Tarjei Jensen
1995-01-30 22:59 ` Jules
1995-01-26 12:25 ` Olaf Weber
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