Dear John and All,
I have made some remarks below.
on 2001-01-31 15.49, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I think we need to get it through
> some peoples heads that anything more than one place after the decimal in
> centimetres for most applications is a sign the person coming up with that
> number is innumerate.
>
> It irks me that when converting from metric to imperial, numbers are rounded
> to the nearest rational number or fraction, but when a number is converted
> or back converted to metric, the result is always to some un-godly number of
> decimal places. What stupidity.
This is worse than stupidity. It makes SI look bad because of an apparent -
but non-existent - complexity. How can we show the simplicity that is SI
when examples like the one you quote abound?
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia
