[LMB] OT: measurements

[Mark Allums]

Jacki Knight wrote:
>> One learns one system, and then sticks with it.
> 
> Until someone changes it - like DOS and Windows, vinyl records and CDs, 
> videotapes and DVDs, cassette tapes and MP3 players, etc.

That doesn't follow.  Systems of measurement are not consumer goods.


>>   2) Some units are
>> useless.  Who uses rods these day?  (or hectometers?)
> 
> Do you mean hectares? (never heard of a hectometre) 

I mean hectometers.  Look up the meaning of hecto-.


> Jacki in Canberra - not intending to be combative merely curious as to 
> your reasoning

Contrary to the belief of billions (apparently), the "metric" system is 
just as arbitrary as any.  Besides, I reserve the right to be as 
eccentric as I want to be.  I (by myself) am right and all those 
billions are wrong!

--Mark