On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:38:23 -0500, T
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:52:36 -0500, krw wrote:

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On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:21:58 GMT, "mwlogs"
wrote:

Which means what? The metric system IS decimal while the current US system
of feet, inches, pounds and onces is not.

Farenheit is decimal. ;-)

And had multiple units of measurement for the same thing. Units which
are not simply related (as in length: there's feet, inches, yards,
rods, fathoms, angstroms, light years and more), so adding to the
difficulty of obtaining and using measurements.

Metric has ONE unit for each thing, and a set of related prefixes for
large or small multiples of any unit.

Light years don't exist?


WHAT?? The closest I said to that was that the light year is not a
metric unit.

I suppose you know a light year is NOT an amount of time.

Right, it's a distance and it is metric. Last I knew, light traveled at
approximately 3x10^8 m/sec.

A year is roughly 31,536,000 seconds. So light travels
9,460,800,000,000,000 m/year. Simplified, 9.5x10^15

The "second" is a metric unit. The "year" is not.

You can measure the distance light travels in a year, expressed in
metric units. That doesn't make "light years" a metric unit. It is
based on the year, which is not a metric unit.

You can measure the volume (using fluid ounces) of a liter. That
doesn't make the liter non-metric.
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