VOUnits RFC

[Tom McGlynn]

Well they did try to introduce the decimal week and 10 hour day 
without success (so far at least!).  So we've still a bit of Jewish? 
and Babylonian arcana to share.

	Tom

Arnold Rots wrote:
> 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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> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Baptiste Cecconi
> <baptiste.cecconi at obspm.fr <mailto: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
>     <mailto:norman at astro.gla.ac.uk>> a écrit :
>
>      >
>      > Kirk, hello.
>      >
>      > On 2013 Jul 26, at 13:22, Kirk D Borne <kborne at gmu.edu
>     <mailto: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
>      >
>      >
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>      > Norman Gray  : http://nxg.me.uk
>      > SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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