On Tuesday 06 January 2009 09:19:58 Tom Wade wrote: > (A) the requirement is to metricate public reports about people's height > (e.g. missing persons). Do you still say use millimeter ?
Meters to the nearest centimeter for people taller than a meter, meters to the nearest millimeter for shorter people. Examples: Enter 185. Display 0.185 and raise a sanity check "Is the baby premature?". Enter 1.509. Display 1.51 (but store 1.509). Enter 5.0. Display 5.00 and raise a sanity check "Is this an elephant?". Enter 5-0. Store 1.524 and display 1.52. Enter 1-85. Raise an error. > (B) the requirement is to standardize on sizes of pants [trousers], > using waist measurement. Do you still say use millimeter ? The European standard says to use centimeters and measure the body, not the clothing. When making pants, though, I'd use millimeters for all cloth dimensions. I have three Buffs; they came with cardboard heads with the range of head circumferences indicated in centimeters. Pierre
