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From: <Gilldiver@ao*.co*>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 06:41:04 EDT
Subject: Re: Metric
To: skipmac@cs*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com
In a message dated 10/7/99 6:22:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, skipmac@cs*.co* 
writes:

> When I was in engineering school everyone would complain when we had to do 
> problems in US units.  In fact, to simplify the job, we often worked the 
> problem in metric and just converted the final answer back to US units.

Now if we could only get JPL and NASA to do that correctly, we would still 
have a Mars probe out there.
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