[sdiy] Metric OT rant

[Tom May]

Don Tillman <don at till.com> writes:

> I've heard that there are only two countries that have not adopted the
> metric system; the US and... can you guess?... Burma.

Burma has a thing against 10.  9 is more numerically auspicious, which
is reflected in their money system with 90 and 45 kyat notes, at least
that was the case when I was there in 1996.  Hmm, I wonder why it
wasn't 81 and 54 kyats . . .

Tom.