On Fri, Dec 30, 2016, Ted Harding wrote:
> And thank God we still use it [inches] in the KU (= "UK" backwards).
> We have 36 of them to the yard (our historic predecessor
> to the metre), which can therefore be divided by
> 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36
> to give lengths consisting of whole numbers o
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> I added a screenshot of my info page.
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Thanks.
> It can quite easily be seen that there is an inappropriate reference
> to anyone using inches as backward and obviously using very low cost
> computer equipment. This is a sl
Hi Ted,
> Not to mention the devastation of our coinage when the pound was
> Europeanised to became 100 pence (a "metric pound") instead of 240
> pence
Indeed. 1971 was a rum year.
> 240 being divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30, 60,
> 80, 120 to give whole numbers of "old) pe
On 30-Dec-2016 20:33:51 Robert Thorsby wrote:
> On 31/12/16 07:01:05, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>
>> >> > Whilst reading the info pages on Groff I came upon the following
>> >>
>> >> What following? You have forgotten to add a quote.
>> >
>> > He refers to doc/groff.texi line 5060. The wording is q
On 31/12/16 07:01:05, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> > Whilst reading the info pages on Groff I came upon the following
>>
>> What following? You have forgotten to add a quote.
>
> He refers to doc/groff.texi line 5060. The wording is questionable
> indeed.
Oh. I would have never expected that Lar
>> > Whilst reading the info pages on Groff I came upon the following
>>
>> What following? You have forgotten to add a quote.
>
> He refers to doc/groff.texi line 5060. The wording is questionable
> indeed.
Oh. I would have never expected that Larry Kollar's satirical remark
would be taken
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Whilst reading the info pages on Groff I came upon the following
>
> What following? You have forgotten to add a quote.
He refers to doc/groff.texi line 5060. The wording is questionable indeed.
Reducing the paragraph to "Inches. One inch is equal to 2.54 cm." (i.
> Whilst reading the info pages on Groff I came upon the following
What following? You have forgotten to add a quote.
> and take offence that countries that still use inches as a unit of
> measurement must be backwards.
Being from Austria, I can only say: No comment :-)
I would be glad if you
Hi,
Whilst reading the info pages on Groff I came upon the following and take
offence that countries that still use inches as a unit of measurement must be
backwards. Besides, for a program that is chiefly used for text documents, and
typesetters still using ‘points to the inch’, I think the
