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Letter: Letters : . . . . .

Published 7 March 1998

From Andrew MacGregor

Bridge of Weir, Scotland

Your story reminds me of the civil servant who decided unilaterally to
metricate floppy disks and requested us to send data on an 88.9 millimetre
floppy. Unfortunately, the decimal point got lost in the typing.

Issue no. 2124 published 7 March 1998

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