"PosterBoy" wrote in
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"Regnirps" wrote in message
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Oh, crap! The table uses that French system with the km/hour I can
never make sense of!

I think you mean that nearly universal system with the km/hour.

Known as the SI system, which derives from its French name "Système
Internationale [d'Unités]" (International System [of units]).

From Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Metric system - a system of weights and measures originating in France...