[Wikipedia-l] Metric v. English

[Jason Williams]

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.

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