From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 13:55:44 EDT
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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:41 PM
> To: Marco Cimarosti
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: SPAM: Re: [Way OT] Beer measurements (was: Re:
> Handwritten EURO sign)
>
>
> It's bad enough to have to have
> two kinds of hardware already: having incompatible things
> both labeled "1/4 inch" would be the facilis descensus Averno indeed.
There are three: Metric, regular Imperial with 1/32", 1/8" etc. and decimal
Imperial with 0.1".
>
> --
> John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com
www.ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your
counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means
'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians
know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a
rule in cases not excepted from."
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