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I'd be happy to compromise so that Europeans ban decimal comma and Americans start using metric system.
by beefield 5y ago
I'd be happy to compromise so that Europeans ban decimal comma and Americans start using metric system.
- dan-robertson 5y agoAt the international meridian conference of 1884, the French allowed the resolution for using the Greenwich meridian[1] to go through on the condition that another resolution promoting the use of the metric (or ‘decimal’) system (including decimal time!) also went through. [1] or as the French called it, “Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds”