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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 12/04/07 18:59
Rik Wasmus wrote:
> He's clearly not a 'merican, hence he uses a more logical date-format
> (hell, probably the metric system too unless he's UK bases, the horror
> of easy calculations, dreadfull!).
The UK does actually use metric for most things these days. Except beer,
which is sold in pints and road signs which are in miles and yards: speeds
being in miles per hour[1]. Milk bottles are usually labelled in litres,
but bottles tend to be multiples of 568 mL.
If you want an example of a non-US country that has not yet officially
adopted the metric system, you could choose Liberia or Myanmar.
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1. It is noteworthy that the UK's motorway speed limit (70 miles/hour) is
almost exactly 4 millilightyears per fortnight (it's about 4.0009353).
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