Return-Path: Received: (qmail 726 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2001 23:37:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warrior-inbound.servers.plus.net) (212.159.14.227) by excalibur.plus.net with SMTP; 24 Jan 2001 23:37:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 4092 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2001 23:31:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by warrior with SMTP; 24 Jan 2001 23:31:54 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14LZFp-0001UU-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:23:05 +0000 Received: from ds-img-7.compuserve.com ([149.174.206.153] helo=spdmbaaa.compuserve.com) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14LZFn-0001UM-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:23:03 +0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by spdmbaaa.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-1.9) id SAA02772 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:22:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:21:50 -0500 From: "boffin1" Subject: LF: Twelve To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Message-ID: <200101241822_MC2-C2E6-3A85@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: As an old man I still use the good old units. There was nothing special about a cosen standard used in Paris and the metre was based upon the division of what was thought to be the distance from the pole to the equator. They got it wrong and in any case one can't carry it around, unlike the thumb and the long step and so on. Fred Hoyle tried to persuade the authorities to use a duodecimal system when the UK went crazy and chaged to metric. His reasons were exactly those which you state , the simplicity of factorization of the numer 12. 73, Roger.