Metric

[Guy, Karen, and Tor Nichols]

At 04:34 PM 12/29/97 -0500, you wrote:
>1 pint = 0.473167 liter
>1 rod = 5.029210 meters
>1 ton = 907.185 kilograms
>1 hectare = 2.471044 acres
>1 fortnight = 14 metric days
>1 furlong = 220 meters (app..)
>
>If your car's speedometer were calibrated in furlongs/fortnight, you would
>be speeding in most parts of the U.S. when it read 174,720.
>
>Frank Weston

Well, Frank... that's really useful... do you you use metric screwdrivers?
:^))

Guy