Re: Different Formats for Different Countries -- Variable Density B&W Film

On 2006-10-30 20:52:55 +0000, philip@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Philip Homburg) said:

> Another strange thing is that money in the US is metric, whereas most
> European countries had very long traditions with non-metric systems.

I presume for "metric" you meant "decimal".

Metric has nothing to do with the base, but more to do with the 
standardisation around the density of water, which seems reasinable 
enough, and the linking of most measurements to each other so that 1kg 
water = 1l water.  Helpfully, the base-10 numbering system we use was 
chosen instead of vulgar fractions.
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