[OT ?] rant (was : Re: Conversions From standard to metric units)
On 4/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 ? 14:17 -0400, stephen sefick a ?crit :
I am starting to use R for almost any sort of calculation that I need. I am a biologist that works in the states, and there is often a need to convert from standard units to metric units.
<rant> US/Imperial units are *not* standard units. The former "metric system" is now called "Syst?me International" (International System) for a reason, which is *not* gallocentrism of a "few" 6e7 frogs, but rather laziness of about 5.6e9 losers who refuse to load their memories with meaningless conversion factors... </rant>
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