"phil hunt" wrote in message
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:08:31 -0000, Jim Battista wrote:

Not you that's stupid, the system. It's broken at a basic level --
you should never have to remember anything, which requires 1 to 1 to
1 conversions.

It would certainly be possible to have the baisc unit of length 10
cm, the unit of volume that length cubed, and thre unit of mass that
volume of water.

Why not just admit that SI is just another arbitrarily bounded measurement
system and get over the eurocentic ego trip?