Re: [NTLK] OT Kilometers

From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_telebyte.nl)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 12:02:01 PDT

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On 1-mei-04, at 16:13, Jon Glass wrote:
> Metric comes from a lab and is too abstract for practical life.

Whatever you're raised with will be intuitive, to me imperial is very
abstract.
Only upside of metric is that once it's intuitive, it's logic as well.
Believe me, it helps ;-)

Robert Benschop

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