Re: dollars cents pound and quarters

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> On the other hand the British have spent nearly 50 years totally
> stuffing up their conversion to metric (as an example look at their
> Met site it is still in an absurd mixture of imperial and metric).

I worked for the BOM and  just when the changeover to metric measurement 
occured, when chasing balloons we would
1 enter the range in yards ( on old equipment, newer stuff was metres)
2 work out the wind speed in metres per sec
3 Send out the result in KNOTS

My new block (well in 10 days or so) will be 1164 sm or just over a 1/4 of

an acre.