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Coos Haak
Op Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:22:44 +0000 schreef Richard Heathfield:
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You mean three feet and nine inches? That's exactly 1143 mm. The value of
an inch has been expressed in SI units for a long time now ;-) Like the
Dutch proverb: You don't have a foot to stand on.
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Al Balmer said:
And I wish we would go back to Imperial weights and measures. Life in
Britain is much more confusing than it needs to be. The last time I
went to the grocer, I had to ask for 0.68038856 kilograms of carrots,
2.2679619 kilograms of spuds, and 1.8927059 pints of milk.
That's the trouble with these Europeans. Give them 25.4 millimetres and
they'll take 1.1429982 metres.
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You mean three feet and nine inches? That's exactly 1143 mm. The value of
an inch has been expressed in SI units for a long time now ;-) Like the
Dutch proverb: You don't have a foot to stand on.
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