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Yes, but even the ardent 'Metricists' don't use consistent SI units: You talk in terms of Km/hour not m/s, for example. Not to mention the use of the Celsius scale when you should be talking Kelvins... So, in this spirit: Speed of light is (approximately) 3,605,191,159,912.91 furlongs per fortnight! Default bombload of a Mosquito FBVI (Love the Roman Numerals!) is One Hundred and Forty-Two Stones and Twelve Pounds. I'm old enough to remember when LSD meant Pounds, Shillings and Pence not lysergic acid diethylamide, and personally regret the change to decimal currency. You can't divide 100 into integer units of 3, 6 or 8, but you certainly could in the old style... OK, OK, I'm feeling better now. Rant off. Steve.
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