Re: Review: Aged El Ray Del Mundo

CJNIC wrote:

||| 1/8th inch is approx 3mm...
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||| How you ppl work fractions of inches I have no idea...
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||| Working with millimeters and centimeters makes so much more sense :)
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||| Just my 0.02c
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|| Bring me a 88.89 x 101.6mm pine.  Cut it to 2438.39mm
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|| --or--
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|| Bring me 2 x 4 pine.  Cut it ro 96".
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|| TimL

But that works both ways...

I still think metric system works so much better...

Is USA the only country that doesnt use that system?

I know Europe, Asia and South America use it...



Funny thing about a government by the people: there's just some things the people won't put up with. Too bad they're willing to put up with so much other government perpetrated in their name....


--
Father Dale

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing
random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
.. John Von Neumann (1951)
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