On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:22:37PM -0500, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
On : Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:02 PM Luke -Jr wrote:
Decimal is annoying. If we're going to fix units, they should be based off binary or hexadecimal. At least here in the US we have binary measurements for liquids (1 peck = 2 gallons = 4 pottles = 8 quarts = 16 pints = 32 cups = 64 gills)
1 US peck = 2.32729448 US gallons... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=peck+in+gallons&btnG=Google+Sea...
1 US peck == 2.32729448 US (wet) gallons. 1 US peck == 2 US (dry) gallons.
Source Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._customary_unit#Liquid_volume http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._customary_unit#Dry_volume
As a child in school we laid out a kilometer as 1000 meters. Were we off by 24 meters? I think not.
-- Hal Duston hald@kc.rr.com