Hi Jack,

Thanks for the note. It will be a long journey but once we all get there life
will be good.

I worked at research institute in Soviet Union/Russia for a couple of years
in the early 1990s and while I appreciated the metric system from school days
with mass, volume and length all tied together by a logical thread, living with
it on a daily basis was a real treat.

(No furlongs per fortnight to ponder... ;-)

One clever thing they did for the small change coins (1,2,3 & 5 kopecks) was
to make the value equal to the weight in grams, so if you wanted to know how
much small change you had, all you had to do was weight it.

Probably the saddest day in engineering history was the day that someone
decided, most cleverly, to decimalize the inch. It gave us the false impression we
were on the right track.

Very best,
Joe

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