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Topic: Weight is a farce
Replies: 15   Last Post: Jul 31, 2005 4:21 PM

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Re: Weight is a farce
Posted: Jul 31, 2005 4:21 PM
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Don1 wrote:
> The metric system made weight a farce:
>
> Now everything's weighed in grams, kilograms, and pounds-mass. Half of
> the people

...meaning at 150 million (out of 6500 million): a mere piddling
2%-2.5% of the people...

> can't even correctly spell the metric unit of force; no
> wonder the "kilo" and liter are used so much.

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