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Re: Arithmetic Using Units of Measure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gaerfindel)
Mon Sep 5 20:13:09 2011

Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 20:04:46 -0400
From: Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20110905151954.046c1e38@flyingstart.ca>
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On 9/5/2011 6:24 PM, Robyn Stewart wrote:
> I was talking about normal everyday life in countries other than
> Myanmar, Liberia, and whatever that other backwards Earth country is
> that still uses body parts for measurements.
>
> - Qov
Like the United States?  Or England?  They still use the old stone, 
pound, and ounce for weighing people, y'know, and the (Imperial) gallon 
and pint are still used.

~quljIb




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