Re: ET Thermal Conductivity

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:18:57 +1000, "Ian" <waimate01@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Dale" <drc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:02:40 +1000, "Ian" <waimate01@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nope - I'm talking about the stock market, which in the US operated in
*fractions* of a dollar until just a handful of years ago. Decimalisation of
the financial systems was a fairly major undertaking, similar to switching
to a four digit year for y2k.

But what is this supposed to prove? The UK didn't switch to a decimal
currency until about 1970. The US has had one almost 200 years longer.
Who cares what the Dow chooses to use? The stock markets are private
organizations, not governmental ones.

World shipping still uses nautical miles. So what?

Earlier, you wrote:

(You guys did it with your stock exchange, and only very recently. The rest
of the world had been using decimals for ages, and you guys were saying
that Enron was up from 87 and nine sixteenths to 87 and nineteen thirty
seconds).

There were never any "thirty seconds" (sic), nor any thirty secondths, for that
matter. The base unit was the sixteenth. Perhaps you are impecuniously
uninformed :)

Dale
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