From: Tim Allan <allantj@xtra.co.nz> Subject: (TFT) Re live metric or die Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:39:13 +1200 Please refrain from refrain from reverting to the archain imperial system of weights and measures, base 10 is so much easier to work with.
True. It works that way with money also. 100 pennies equals a dollar. Therefore $1.57 equals one hundred and fiftyseven cents. Now if we can only get some of these other nations to do the same.
15 million lira? 2 pounds 4 pennies?However, in a world of semi-literates, how come the U.S. still doesn't place the numeric value on the coin? We write out the number: Quarter dollar, One dime, One cent.
Oh Well. Sorry to have strayed onto non-TFT topics. Hail Money John Paul ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ===== Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com. Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body "unsubscribe tft"