>>You're career is based on tools invented by those you claim are close to the devil:) What will the barker say when he learns of this!! You'll start using Roman Numerals: Let's see : VII + II = IX - great palce to start a "New American Centuray".
>>Sign of Beast VI-VI-VI - still scary in Roman numbers:)
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>You might as well. You guys still talk in Farenheit and cubic inches while the rest of the world has gone on to Celsius and c.c. :-)

Terry;

That is easy to explain! We learned the English system of measurement from the British and are reluctant to change. Congress passed a bill in 1865 to allow us to go Metric. It sometimes takes us awhile to forge ahead and do the right thing. :)

Tom

P.S. In my previous life as an electronics engineer I was a Metrologist. We used metric and English systems of measurement - metric being of more importance.