Re: [Paddlewise] Those Wacky Europeans

From: Patrick Maun <pmaun_at_bitstream.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:08:54 -0800
OK,  now you guys are just getting crazy. Let's just use picas.

-Patrick

At 12:26 AM -0500 2/11/01, Gabriel L Romeu wrote:
>http://www.bioscience.org/urllists/convert.htm
>
>Patrick, as I see it, it would get quite cumbersome to translate
>temperature to 5 or more different measures, length (distance) into the
>multitude of possibilities- I think it would be handy if a
>qualifier/context is  appended to any units of measure.
>
>The recipient should go the extra mile = 16090000000000 angstroms = .333
>leagues = 8 furlongs = 320 rods = 0.29 leagues (sea)= 880 fathoms, and
>of course, 380200 picas.
>
>Patrick Maun wrote:
>
>>
>>  When possible, I'd love to see people convert their weights and
>>  temps. Maybe someone can point out a good utility somewhere on the
>  > net that make this easier.
>>
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