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From: Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Mikael Sundqvist <mickep@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] new units
Date: Sun, 7 May 2023 08:09:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHy-LL8Va3+Oq2+Fn2BHd2+VaopaKFc91G+KdEhAuTQp80niBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22CC94BB-F2DA-4716-8909-A7A6B071ED4C@ca.rr.com>

Hi Michael,

On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 4:43 AM Michael Urban via ntg-context
<ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
>
> If you are going to introduce new units, you should at least include the Potrzebie, invented by teenager Donald Knuth and published in the humor magazine Mad Magazine #33.  The system is based on the thickness of Mad Magazine #26, equal to 2.2633484517438173216473 mm.
> See the Wikipedia entry for 'potrzebie' for more information, or search for suitable images.
>
> Honestly, I don't know how Knuth resisted putting this in plain TeX.

It is already there for a while, as dk.

/Mikael
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-07  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-07  0:10 skyhorse--- via ntg-context
2023-05-07  2:43 ` Michael Urban via ntg-context
2023-05-07  6:09   ` Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context [this message]
2023-05-07  8:15   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07  2:51 ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-05-07  8:22 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-04  8:01 Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-06 16:45 ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-05-06 19:40   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-06 21:53 ` Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
2023-05-06 23:29   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07  9:10 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-05-07  9:29   ` Mojca Miklavec via ntg-context
2023-05-07 10:04     ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07 10:06     ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07  9:45   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07 10:09     ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-05-07 10:29       ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07 15:56         ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-05-07 14:56       ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07 12:00     ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2023-05-07 13:07       ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07 15:58       ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context

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