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Lynn McGuire to All

xkcd: Metric Tip

06 Nov 25 13:21:38

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   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   xkcd: Metric Tip   
       https://www.xkcd.com/3164/   
      
   No, no, no, no.   
      
   I write software for a living and just added pressure dimensional units   
   number 25 and 26, mH2O (meters of H2O) and mH2Og (meters of H2O gauge).   
   Mixing dimensional units is a very bad thing for programmers, we will   
   screw it up.   
      
   Explained at:   
       https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3164:_Metric_Tip   
      
   Lynn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)

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