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   Scott Dorsey to lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
   Re: xkcd: Metric Tip   
   08 Nov 25 16:20:27   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Lynn McGuire   wrote:   
   >Having a trailing a on the absolute pressure units would be better.   
   >Where were you over the last 56 years ? I now have these strings   
   >embedded in my software in thousands of hands, never to be changed now.   
      
   What about inches of water, inches of mercury, millimeters of mercury,   
   millimeters of water, psf, and torr?  And we use dBtorr sometimes too.   
      
   I once worked in a facility with a gauge marked lb/cm2 and I never did   
   figure out how they wound up with that one.   
   --scott   
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   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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