I think what Mr. Naughtin meant was that the inch, pound, etc. are all defined with SI units.
--- On Sat, 1/24/09, Jeremiah MacGregor <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jeremiah MacGregor <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:42452] Re: A thin veneer of dishonesty To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 6:17 PM 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).
