From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 12014d,7134e36a23e57417 X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa463d25bcbdaa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid12014d,gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!nntp.inet.fi!central1.inet.fi!inet.fi!read3.inet.fi.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Sender: AWI003@FIW9430 Newsgroups: misc.metric-system,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: decimal separator (international? References: <8h34o0dbc2h70ojvsst879nfkthko7suok@4ax.com> From: Anders Wirzenius Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:14:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.251.142.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@inet.fi X-Trace: read3.inet.fi 1099304063 194.251.142.2 (Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:14:23 EET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:14:23 EET Organization: Sonera corp Internet services Xref: g2news1.google.com misc.metric-system:1433 comp.lang.ada:5950 Date: 2004-11-01T10:14:23+00:00 List-Id: Peter Hermann writes: > I would like the octal system. > If we only were Mickey Mice with 4 fingers/hand > we had no conversion problems :-) > I second that. The vegetable balance in my food shop has eight buttons per line. Would be easier to find the right button to press. Anders