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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:17:56 -0700
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:29:37 +0530, Pimpom <Pimpom@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

>On 21-10-2024 09:21 pm, john larkin wrote:
>> 
>> We follow SI rules in engineering, but in everyday life the quirky old
>> stuff is sort of fun. We measure distances in blocks or football
>> fields and fluid volume in olympic-size swimming pools, or sometimes
>> acre-feet.
>> 
>> 
>You use your states as units too. I wonder how many Americans actually 
>know how big "half the size of Oregon" is. :)

A pizza is a unit of area, but they tend to not be constants.