> Note that the military and other parts of the government require use of t=
he
> metric system in some cases. =A0For example, soldiers are required to
> communicate distances in kilometers, "klicks" in their jargon.

And it used to be mandatory to design mission critical operational
aspects of interplanetary spacecraft in imperial units and then to
convert some of the results to metric before use, I hear. I suspect
that practice may have been stopped one way or the other. (Some say
there was never any truth in the allegations).


   R

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