Re: [Way OT] Beer measurements (was: Re: Handwritten EURO sign)

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Ted Hopp writes
>
> Since we're speaking of the French (we are, aren't we?) what ever happened
> to French Revolutionary Metric Time?

The other French attempts were less successful, such as the 12 30-day
months. The French names for the months Vendémiaire, etc., were parodied in
an English version: wheezy, sneezy, freezy, slippy, etc.

One decimal dystem that survives is the grad (400 grad = 360 degrees), still
used at least by surveyors, but Laplace used it in astronomical
calculations.

The Americans won't have the meter now, unless it's renamed the
freedom-yard, I suppose.

Raymond

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