VOUnits RFC

[Arnold Rots]

You mean the French lost all those precious arcane curiosities during the
revolution?
That really impoverished your culture ;-)
How about a Rijnlandse voet?

  - Arnold

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Arnold H. Rots                                          Chandra X-ray
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Baptiste Cecconi <
baptiste.cecconi at obspm.fr> wrote:

> Nice peace of imperial folklore ! :-)
>
> Let's quote an ancient french popular icon, Obelix:
> "Ils sont fous ces Bretons !"
>
> Baptiste
>
> Le 26 juil. 2013 à 15:44, Norman Gray <norman at astro.gla.ac.uk> a écrit :
>
> >
> > Kirk, hello.
> >
> > On 2013 Jul 26, at 13:22, Kirk D Borne <kborne at gmu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Hey Norman!  That's an old school puzzle (for us old guys). :)  The
> pound of feathers weighs more because gold is measured in Troy pounds = 12
> troy ounces, which is approx. 13 ounces avdp.  A pound of feathers weighs
> 16 oz avdp.  :)
> >
> > Confound you, sir!  You have exhausted my supply of imperial
> metrological arcana.  Not _the_ supply, mind, but all the ones I can
> remember.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Norman
> >
> >
> > --
> > Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
> > SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
> >
>
>
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