Even the USA did not manage to adopt a non-metric system for volts,
amps, etc.

In fact even the Brits. managed to avoid a non-metric system for matters
electrical. Otherwise, Britain would have 16 volts to a
something-or-other, 9 something-or-others to a watchamacallit, 4
watchamacallits to a thingamajig, and 7 thingamajigs to a . . .

At least US volts, Imperial volts and European volts are the same,
whereas US gallons are composed of 8 wrong-sized pints.

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Alan


On 10/29/03 10:13 pm Chuckles put fingers to keyboard and launched the
following message into cyberspace:

Yes, the best way is to see when it just lights up and then measure the
fraction of a turn to where it stops going further, then back off halfway.
Europeans say 1/3 of the way, but that's because they use the stupid metric
system (220 volts) as opposed to the imperial system (110 volts).