Chris Keenan wrote: >My partner recently received a plants catalogue. She said "what's >900 mm?". I said it's 30 cm, or about a foot. Her reply (and this is >someone who was >anti-metric before she met me!) was "why >don't they SAY 30 cm?"
Do you want to run that one by us again, Chris? 900 mm = 30 cm? Typos are not our friends. <g> Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
