Longitudinal Calculations

[Roger Jolly]

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>Speaking as one who has been forced to make that transition myself... let me
>say this... Its so friggen easy when it comes down to it, that its absurd. If
>tommorrow you all woke up to a USA with speed limit signs in metric only, and
>your speedometers all changed to metrics... and all distances redone into
>metrics... within a couple weeks you'd already be making the full adjustment
>and not really notice what the problem really was to begin with.
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>Base ten for figuring numbers is much easier.
Hi Ric,
              As Canadians we made the transition just fine.   Ever the 
British rejected their own system and went metric.  Oh! except for pints, 
in pubs.   I think I read somewhere they have a special cultural status 
from the EEC on that one.  <G>

Roger