On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Bengt Richter wrote: > >> > >> For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet. > > > >Google can do that too, of course. <wink> > > > >http://www.google.com/search?q=convert+15+meters+to+feet > > > >(49.2125984 feet to be more precise) > > > Actually that looks like it's based on the approximation > of 25.4 mm/inch, whereas I believe the legally defined US conversion > is 39.3700 inches/meter. They're close. British is 39.3701 for some reason. > At least according to my dusty 37th Edition Handbook of Chemistry and Physics > (c) 1955. > Maybe things have changed since then ;-) >
Actually they did change...My 54th edition lists the change that as of July 1 1959, by definition, 1 inch is exactly 25.4 mm. Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
