Brian, Wouldn't a metric inch be 25 mm, a metric foot be 300 mm, and a metric mile 1600 m?
Isn't a metric pound already used as 500 g in some countries? So why do we have to have these crazy numbers? Jerry ________________________________ From: Brian J White <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Cc: U..S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:36:22 PM Subject: [USMA:42411] Re: A thin veneer of dishonesty Not sure I truly understand what you're meaning with this statement Pat....expand? At 14:01 2009-01-22, Pat Naughtin wrote: > 8 Last, but not least, almost all length measuring is done using the metric > inch (of exactly 25.4 millimetres), the metric foot (of exactly 304.8 > millimetres) and the metric mile (of exactly 1609.344 metres). Meanwhile, > almost all mass measurements are carried out using the metric pound (of > exactly 453.5924 grams).
