OT: C++ Question

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/3/13 Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>

> > I agree. Personally I prefer ”c++”.
> > By the way, Karl, and way off topic: ”CM” doesn't mean centimeters. ”cm”
> > does. I don't know what C means, but ”c” means ”centi”, ”m” means ”meter”
> > and ”M” means ”mega”. So one million meters = 1 Mm, but for some strange
> > reason people seem to rather say 1000 km, which indeed is the same thing
> but
> > still I wonder why not using Mm instead. And why use tons? 1 ton is
> exactly
> > the same as 1 Mg. Well, never mind…
> > J.R.
>
> I just found out today that ton in German means the same as in English
> but it also means barrel.

More OT:
It's ”ton” in Swedish too. But if you pronounce ”ton" with a long ”o” sound,
sounding more like ”toon”, it means ”tone”, but it's still spelled ”ton”.
J.R.


> I would guess that at some point one barrel
> weighed the same as one ton.
>
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