Date: 22 Feb 2005 13:10:22 -0800 From: mandtpricenospaml.com Subject: Re: 9-5 gas mileage?
As an American not too long out of high school I'd like to report that most students here should be able to handle metric without trouble. If not they weren't paying attention. Everything in science class here is metric - except the spelling :). Funny because a group of us was in an international competition once and the questions they sent to the US were all in imperial measurements and none of us could come up with anything close to an answer in the alloted time because our understanding of all the constants were in metric units. Sure it could be converted but we were all dumbfounded initially. What's STP or C or the speed of sound or water's heat of fusion/vaporization in imperial? I have no idea. meter, liter, meter, liter - hope that doesn't bother you :-)
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