Re: US cultural conventions

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Sun Jun 27 1999 - 15:29:43 EDT


Markus Kuhn scripsit:

> Until then, the dominant use of SI units in the US will
> unfortunately remain the 9 mm bullet.

There are other limited domains: food is sold by the customary system,
but the nutritional information on the package is SI; alcohol except
beer is SI; science (as opposed to engineering) is SI; electrical
engineering is SI.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin



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