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<font size=3>At 02:12 2001-07-17 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>> earlier this year) but even so
he's not completely infallible. i bet<br>
> there are other industrialised (whatever that means) countries
that<br>
> use letter as their standard size...<br><br>
Definitely not many. The USA are the only industrialized country<br>
that is officially not metric.</font></blockquote><br>
But what about North Yemen and Burnei :-)?<br><br>
Also, I seem to recollect, there are a few places that have gone <br>
metric and do not use A4 paper.<br><br>
As for "officially", there have been many laws passed by
congress<br>
starting way back in something like 1786 to change. Its just<br>
that somehow nobody pays any attention. The exception being<br>
a few things like wine bottles (750 ml) and heavily export<br>
oriented industries (like Caterpillar tractor).<br><br>
Also, people in so-called "metric' countries shouldn't slap <br>
themselves on the back too hard. Supposedly the world change<br>
to SI in about 1960, but I don't see that having taken hold.<br>
One sees mixtures of cm and m, use of deprecated units<br>
like Angstrom and centigrade etc. reversions to mks,<br>
and on occasion even cgs.<br>
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