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From: mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio,sci.astro,sci.space
Subject: Re: Units of Measure (was fluxgate magnetometer)
Summary: Inching our way to the metric system
Keywords: Inching our way to the metric system
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Date: 30 Oct 89 13:50:42 GMT
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In article <30329@buckaroo.mips.COM> vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) writes:

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>.... I have to deal today with gauss, tesla, and microns,....

Someone once referred to the USA's "solution" to this problem as
  "INCHING OUR WAY TO THE METRIC SYSTEM"!

--Myron
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