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Mark Jose wrote: > Final moan for tonight - why the hell have schools stopped teaching times > tables up to 12? They stop at 10 now - presumably decimalisation, but that > seems to be a relatively new introduction. > I am nearly 47. > > Mark Final Final. I'll have 3 metres of 2 x 4 [inch] please. length metric, cross-section Imperial.... madness! :) BTW IMHO Imperial is superior on accuracy grounds. deg. F are smaller than deg. C. Granted inches are bigger than cm, but then you go down as far as 1/8 and 1/16 - much more accurate. Feet are smaller than metres... yards are smaller than metres.... pints smaller than litres... etc.... And on that note, at Greenwich Mean Time 0253, nite nite :) Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html