RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] rant

> They allso tried to install a 10 hour clock. It took fourty
> years to get the French to use the metric system, in the
> 1820s, Napoleon waved the metric system because nobody was
> using it. ten years later, the king of the Netherlands
> reinstaled the it to unify his somewhat strange kingdom. In
> 1840, a law was passed that obliged the French to metricate.
> I have a pan break, that I got from a building tha was going
> to be demolished. It is dated 1841, I've measured different
> bits of it, but nothing on it is either metric or imperial.
> (the French had a system close to imperial before metrication)

They also tried to put 400 degrees in a circle. Apparently the French army
actually use that system.

It makes sense when you link it to the bloke who went for a stroll to
measure the Equator - North pole distance (and got it wrong, as was pointed
out before).

Converting degrees to distance becomes really easy, handy when you're on a
boat. Earth is 40,000km round, and 400 degrees. One degree of travel is
100km. Remember that next time you're trying to do g-code with polar
co-ordinates!

Tony