The author got the conversion from FEET TO MILES wrong!!!!! He used 5260. It is of course 5280. If people like this can't get USC right, with its arcane conversion factors for everything, then all the more reason to bring on metric!
John F-L ----- Original Message ----- From: Nat Hager To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: 'Nat Hager' Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:31 PM Subject: [USMA:46931] U.S. still the last major metric system holdout Story appeared today: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/mar/14/la-us-still-the-last-major-metric-system-holdout/ I also made some editorial corrections >>A nice day of 80 degrees Fahrenheit doesn't seem so nice when it's 26.7 27 degrees Celsius . >>Highlands Today asked a few employees what 1 inch correlates to in the metric system and nobody had a clue that 1 inch is roughly 2 1/2 centimeters, or 25.4 25 millimeters. Nat
