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<div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif';font-size:12pt;"><div>Here Here<br></div><div data-signatureblock="true"><div><br></div><div>Aaron Dickinson</div><div>Mason, Mi</div><div><br></div></div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid;"><div><font face=" 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif'" style='line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: "Calibri", "Segoe UI", "Meiryo", "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:farmallsupera1@gmail.com" target="_parent">Al Jones</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 24, 2020 10:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_parent">Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div dir=""><div dir="ltr"><div>Real men do fractions. The metric system is the work of the devil.....</div><div><br></div><div>Al</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 9:09 AM Indiana Robinson <<a href="mailto:robinson46176@gmail.com" target="_parent">robinson46176@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><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><div><br></div><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><br></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><div><br></div><div>If you have forgotten how to use your Abacus there is a section on that too. :-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- <br><br>Francis Robinson<br>aka "farmer"<br>Central Indiana USA<br><a href="mailto:robinson46176@gmail.com" target="_parent">robinson46176@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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