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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95
Date: 22 Jun 2025 06:14:31 GMT
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:24:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:


>    Still wonder about the Babylonian base-60 thing ...

Yeah, every time I have to convert degrees/minutes/seconds into something 
I can work with. The jury is still out if that can be blamed on them or 
not. The French tried to metrify that and more or less failed.