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   William Hyde to Scott Dorsey   
   Re: xkcd: Metric Tip   
   08 Nov 25 16:47:54   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   The classic measure of speed, of course is in furlongs per fortnight.   
      
      
   William Hyde   
      
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