> > > > Yes, but if you live in a 2 1/2nd world country [...] > > > > How would this be read aloud? Especially the "2 1/2nd" part? > > > With great difficulty. :) > > The twenty four and a halfth century! Yet one more problem that wouldn't exist if we could get everybody on board the metric system. Since we all know that the conversion between metric and (old) English is 2.54 cm per inch and since 2 1/2 is close to 2.54... Now it becomes a metric 1st world country!!! See - metric is better. -Denny (who is five feet eleven and one half inches tall :-) -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist