Personally I think feet and inches are much more sensible in everyday living
that that foreign metric rubbish. Metric is OK in science and for frogs but
give me the old Imperial - especially on the canals. On the cut it should be
left, right, front, back, stern, tother end, in, out, feet, inches, tons,
gallons .... and so on.
sIts
Roger Millin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Adrian wrote:
> I guess you and Martin missed the reply where the person posting noted
> (correctly) that I had truncated the measurement(s) to one digit after
> the decimal point.
In that case then, why not use 'your much despised' Imperial system and
you wouldn't need to correct the conversions at all to one, two, three
or nine hundred and ninety-nine decimal places? After all, you are
talking about a system that was designed and built to Imperial
standards and still, generally, has boats built to those standards.
Why complicate things unnecessarily when you're talking to a generation
that was brought up with Imperial units.
Roger
Going to France tomorrow so I regret I shan't have a chance to benefit
from the wisdom of your reply.
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