Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:23:02AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
> > To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what the
> > rest of the world thinks of English measure. A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not
> > 1000, dammit!
>
>
> Really? There is a metric byte-system? I've never heard of such a thing. I
> even live in Canada and use the metric system!
>
> Which in and of itself is interesting: It all comes from the French Revolution
> ( which means it is a metre, not a meter (that's the inversion of re and er,
> by the bye.).).
A metre is a unit of length.
A meter is a measuring instrument.
in English anyway, even though in French both of them are metre.
-- hendrik
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