On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:00:46 -0400, oldschool wrote:

The old 45 RPM (revolutions per minute) vinyl records were called 45's
by everyone who had them.

If we were using a metric system at that time, would they still be
called 45 rpm, or would there be some metric numbers used instead?

No difference at all.





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