Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95

On 6/18/25 12:15 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-06-18, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 18 Jun 2025 03:55:32 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>

Besides 'metre' goes back to the French National Assembly that wanted
to reinvent everything including 10 day weeks with the days named
after plants.

>
Frustratingly, the year persisted in having 365.25[...] days no matter
how severely they threatened to guillotine it ;)

 Just as pi has resisted any attempts to re-define it as 3.
(355/113 works pretty well, though...)
 

   Well, just change to base-pi ... then it's
   conveniently 1
   Might be a bit messy to calculate how to make
   change at the convenience store however  :-)