Christian McArdle wrote:

The whole British Imperial System was eminently workable.

A Rod, Pole, or Perch. was the standard width of a Victorian terraced
house in London. and equalled a standard number of bricks.


The problem is that whilst having 56,712 different units for length is very
convenient when those lengths are perfectly adapted to the quantity they
measure, it makes it damn near impossible to compare such lengths outside
that narrow field without having a telephone book sized book of tables to
convert them.



That's what we had brains, and education for.

Now of course no longer meeded, since the government has built a world
for morons.

Anyone who can instantly do duodecimal arihmetic in their heads isn't
going to be bilked by any mexican shop girl, as I discovered....


Christian.