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  1. Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!jhallen
  3. From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
  4. Subject: Re: US System of measurement - Why?
  5. Message-ID: <C1BrqF.EJ6@world.std.com>
  6. Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
  7. References: <kfJBwM200Xs2E1HWsC@andrew.cmu.edu> <1925@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
  8. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:01:26 GMT
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  11. In article <1925@blue.cis.pitt.edu> wbdst+@pitt.edu (William  B Dwinnell) writes:
  12. >
  13. >"Why is is  it that the US is the only country in the world ... that
  14. >uses the old English system of measurement?" Easy: the very 
  15. >underappreciated phenomenon of being a vistom (that was supposed to
  16. >be "victim"!) of your own success.
  17.  
  18. Yes, but most immediately it's because metric was too difficult for The
  19. Gipper to grasp.
  20. -- 
  21. /*  jhallen@world.std.com (192.74.137.5) */               /* Joseph H. Allen */
  22. int a[1817];main(z,p,q,r){for(p=80;q+p-80;p-=2*a[p])for(z=9;z--;)q=3&(r=time(0)
  23. +r*57)/7,q=q?q-1?q-2?1-p%79?-1:0:p%79-77?1:0:p<1659?79:0:p>158?-79:0,q?!a[p+q*2
  24. ]?a[p+=a[p+=q]=q]=q:0:0;for(;q++-1817;)printf(q%79?"%c":"%c\n"," #"[!a[q-1]]);}
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