[Wikipedia-l] Metric v. English

[Rob Brewer]

At 06:30 03/01/03 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>The foot, for example, is evenly divisible into inches by 2, 3, and 4.
>That sort of division comes up all the time in carpentry.
>
>Cup, pint, quart, half-gallon, gallon -- binary!  More rational than
>decimal, if you're likely to be multiplying and dividing by 2.  (As
>in, doubling or halving a recipe.)

...but strangely, when I try to explain to Americans how money worked
in Britain before 1971, they think I'm crazy. ;-)


Rob