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