On: Grace Hopper on nanoseconds

[lutorm]

I don't endorse inches as a measure, but they are pretty intuitive. Maybe it's because the swedish word for inch is "tum", which means "thumb". And it happens to be 1.25 inches from the top of my thumb to the first joint.

[DasIch → lutorm]

Metric units aren't any less intuitive when you are used to them.

[Someone → lutorm]

An inch is (supposedly) measured as the _width_ of the upper phalange of the thumb, not as its length.

And 'thumb' is its name in Dutch and French, too.

[lutorm → Someone]

I have small hands. ;-)