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Can we get some more conversions in these articles?

This is just a request, something I'd appreciate being done. :)

It would be great if the various money and size measurements(in the macroscopic world) could be converted and listed in parentheses. So Euros would get a paranthetical(sp?) reference that has dollar and pound amounts, and maybe 1 or 2 others. And metric stuff would be converted to the English system(or whatever the heck you crazy Europeans ;) call it) and vice-versa.

And can we please not get into an argument about how metric is supposedly better than our system? The human brain doesn't think of things in terms of base-10. Period. We're not actually built to handle mathematics at all. Albert Einstein( a European) was one of the greatest math people ever, and he absolutely sucked at basic math. It's been said that his horrible ability to perform basic math was actually related to why he was able to come up with his theories in the first place. Something about not really comprehending the world until he was around 10.

Okay, now I've gone totally off-topic, and I'm sorry. But, again, it'd be great if we could get some conversions posted with some of this stuff.

Thanks much. :)

posted by : Jason Goatcher, 17 May 2010 Complain about this comment

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