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Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag (2927).
“Round” as used here should not be confused with its ancestral arithmetic verb, “to round off, up or down.” It takes more than dropping the last few decimal places of an unround number to confer roundness.
The verb “metrify” derives from a program of metrification intended to abolish our British system of units. It is not to be confused with “metricate” from “metrication” which is a newer quality movement term implying measurement of all activities against metrics. Not that the former could not have used some of the latter.
Somehow this does not seem to contradict my direct intuitive appreciation for centimeters in the lab.
An equally interesting question to consider is whether one is in violation of the law when cruising below 30 mph but speeding above 48 kph in the twilight zone, 48 < υ (kph) < 48.28032(29.8258 < υ (mph) < 30).
As one might expect in nations really on the metric system, M0D(5) = 0 applies to kph.
Purists will insist that the next millennium will not actually begin until year 2001, but the power of round numbers will drown them out.
Speaking of phone numbers, most large companies have main phone numbers with three trailing zeroes. Certainly the Fortune 500 need that extra zero.
Fred R Barnard. in Printer’s Ink, (10 March 1927) p. 114.
From: The Web and the Rock, Thomas Wolfe (1939) and (without the friendly) George Herbert Walker Bush, Republican National Convention, New Orleans, August 18, 1988.
From The Way of Lao-tzu (c.604-c.531 B.C.)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961.
Paraphrased from Duchess of Malfi, John Webster, (1623) Act IV, se. 2.
Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa) as told through John G Neihardt., Black Elk Speaks, Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1961).
From E.N Kaufmann., Circles, unpublished.
After USA Today, Friday, May 12, 1995
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This is the long-delayed sequel to the Posterminaries, “Being Odd: Getting Even,” MRS Bulletin, Vol. XVIII, No. 9 (September, 1993) p. 96. I. From Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag (2927).
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Kaufmann, E.N. Round Numbers. MRS Bulletin 20, 79–80 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1557/S0883769400035016
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