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<DIV>Right! If God had intended for us to use the metric system,, he would
have give us ten fingers.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=a_dickinson@att.net>Aaron
Dickinson</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 24, 2020 6:37 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [AT] Supposedly why our old tractors are not metric and
a fairly simple tutorial</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Here Here<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Aaron Dickinson</DIV>
<DIV>Mason, Mi</DIV>
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<DIV>Real men do fractions. The metric system is the work of the
devil.....</DIV>
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<DIV>Al</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_attr dir=ltr>On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 9:09 AM Indiana Robinson
<<A target=_parent>robinson46176@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>I'm not sure how accurate this story is but it matches what I had
read for years.
<DIV><A href="https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/04/12/metric-system-usa/"
target=_parent>https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/04/12/metric-system-usa/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>If they had listened to Jefferson we would not be messing with a
double system, metrics would just be what we use... The 10 based system
can be done in your head (could have saved all those years learning
those damned fractions) :-) and every tool box wouldn't have a
fraction to decimal conversion chart tucked in somewhere that you can't ever
find when you need it. Also we would not have to worry about some dead kings
thumb size getting lost or a bad few years for the barley crop or a lot of
other stuff they tried to set as standards long ago.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This site looks fairly well done and I liked the little section on the
metric size of a few common objects.</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="https://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Centimeters?fbclid=IwAR1z77b9GTGRpTD7TM1cH51LA1CKzsTyPJ-n87HsRDmbJv7b5ME7QyCVpbs"
target=_parent>https://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Centimeters?fbclid=IwAR1z77b9GTGRpTD7TM1cH51LA1CKzsTyPJ-n87HsRDmbJv7b5ME7QyCVpbs</A></DIV>
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<DIV>If you have forgotten how to use your Abacus there is a section on that
too. :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>-- <BR><BR>Francis Robinson<BR>aka "farmer"<BR>Central Indiana USA<BR><A
target=_parent>robinson46176@gmail.com</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>AT
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