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Thread #15447   Message #138640
Posted By: Jon Freeman
20-Nov-99 - 12:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Last ODD Date for 1000 years
Subject: RE: BS: Last ODD Date for 1000 years
Garry, thanks for the explaination.

Sidetraking further, we in the UK must have been responsble for some of the most illogical systems going - why 12 inches make a foot, 3 feet a yard... is it 1760 yards in a mile? Then there are chains, furlongs etc. somewhere in the middle... And then there are weights, volumes etc. Which leads me to another one - why is a US gallon smaller than a UK one?

Jon