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msvan
on June 9, 2013
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Feynman vs. The Abacus
That was sarcasm. I was surprised that he knew those factoids about feet and inches, which eventually gave him an edge in the competition. He won because of them. And that was the only benefit he ever got out of not using the metric system.
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