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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB =?iso-8859-1?q?in	Configure=2Ehelp=2E?=
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Followup to:  <200112220152.fBM1qJSr022347@svr3.applink.net>
By author:    Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
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> 
> No, the US never went metric.  That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
> entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
> of Metrics.  The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
> suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
> 

Ewhat?!

	-hpa
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