On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:42:41AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Is that right? As an American, I frankly confess that the metric system is a curiosity to me. 9,000,000 square miles, I can grasp, because I know how long a mile is intuitively. The kilometer, on the other hand, is non-intuitive, just an arbitrary length from a textbook.
Shouldn't we give both, then?
Bit ugly, don't you think? I'd prefer metric measurements, linked to a page of conversion factors.