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Yeah, a common problem with Wikipedia. I once had one of the school PC blocked by Wikipedia, because I was 'hijacking' a topic. Actually, we tried to correct the hijackers errors several times. Anyway, I don't see that error on there.
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"Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). Today, the scale has been replaced by the Celsius scale in most countries; it is still in use for non-scientific purposes in the United States and a few other nations, such as Belize"
Where is the reference to the 'really' old fart who supposedly came up with it? :?
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Yes, I think the US is about the only country that still uses the "English" system of measurement. Like any system, it works fairly well until one tries to convert it to some other system. Then the arbitrary measures become confusing.
...But we seem to be inching toward the metric system.... :wink:
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Last I read it was the US and some tiny country in micronesia or some such place that still officially uses the archaic Imperial system- geez, that if anything I'd have thought would motivate the US to move into the 20th century :wink: LOL But I do see evidence of the inching too (ironic term there)- soda comes in 2L bottles, not 2 pint bottles, and often enough I hear people mentioning 'millimeters' and other Metric measurements here and there on various TV shows (Dirty Jobs, for example). It's almost like an underground movement. The really funny thing is that I heard a little while back that the UK I think it was announced finally converting fully- and it only having taken 20 years, and of course here in Canada we still use Imperial for building materials for some gods-only-know reason, despite having adopted metric in the mid-1970s...
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Quote:jvrjenivs:kukerp0t Wrote:Yeah, a common problem with Wikipedia. I once had one of the school PC blocked by Wikipedia, because I was 'hijacking' a topic. Actually, we tried to correct the hijackers errors several times. Anyway, I don't see that error on there.
We had the whole school blocked. 
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Hmmmm, thats not what I heard..... :wink:
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