Carolina QuotesThe foot, the pound, and the pint are all close to the size of many things used in daily life. In contrast, the metre, the kilogram, and the litre are all rather large, and the centimetre, the gram, and the millilitre rather small, for many practical uses.
Tom Flanagan Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 4, Models of Metrication, p. 64.
- work
- Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998)
- year
- 1998
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- p. 64
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