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October 26, 2007 by Anonymous, 2 years 4 weeks ago
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The worst of all worlds is to mix metric and Imperial (or USCS) units. Check any British automobile brochure. Clearly facing a steep learning curve on the road to enlightenment. US scientific papers do the same; the writer throws in some metric in the misplaced belief that it adds an international flavour. Simply too tedious to read. Return to the Moon? Has the first person to step on the Moon actually been born yet?