Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. | Date | 21 Dec 2001 20:32:20 -0800 |
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Followup to: <200112220152.fBM1qJSr022347@svr3.applink.net> By author: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on > entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard > of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President, > suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there. >
Ewhat?!
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