Re: Units, kilo, megga, milli, etc

Evan Kirshenbaum filted:

Interestingly, looking it up on Google Books, the first hit I see is
from the _Bulletin of Pharmacy_, in 1914, which proposes a new
"American System of Weights and Measures"

http://books.google.com/books?id=RZFNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA200

which, after declaring the metric system to be "a failure", sets out
new tables, which include the definition of a "microinch" as 1/64 of
an inch.

My father used those units with a different name...he'd read off a measurement
as "four feet, nine inches, and three itty-bitty marks"....r


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