Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System
by wastholm on Sunday September 01, 2019 @03:45AM
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For one thing, as mentioned in the article, not exposing hospital patients to a completely unnecessary risk of death due to incorrect dosage of medication?
When you're living inside a system, it seems perfectly normal to you, I get that. To me, when someone explains the American measurements system to me, here's what I hear:
> Mr. Zabladowski: If you must know, the currency here is a little strange. First of all, in the small money comes the drakmids. At the regular, normal rate of exchange, there are 59 drakmids to one silver zlobeck.
> Bart Collins: "Zlobeck"?
> Mr. Zabladowski: Three silver zlobecks make one golden kratchmuk. A pastoola normally is, uh, 44,000 kratchmuks. But these, they tell me, are not normal times...
When you're living inside a system, it seems perfectly normal to you, I get that. To me, when someone explains the American measurements system to me, here's what I hear:
> Mr. Zabladowski: If you must know, the currency here is a little strange. First of all, in the small money comes the drakmids. At the regular, normal rate of exchange, there are 59 drakmids to one silver zlobeck.
> Bart Collins: "Zlobeck"?
> Mr. Zabladowski: Three silver zlobecks make one golden kratchmuk. A pastoola normally is, uh, 44,000 kratchmuks. But these, they tell me, are not normal times...
(From the movie "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T".)