The correct conversion is 1 meter = 3.280839895013123 feet, (1 foot = 0.3048 meters) so shame on your iPhone for rounding to 5 decimal places.
PJ ----- Original Message ----- From: DON BERTOLETTE To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:50 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: White Pine AJ- Yeah my iPhone's metric/feet conversion says one meter equals 3.28084 feet, whereas our Wikipedia listing has 57.54 meter or 188.54 feet, which would have an incorrect conversion of 3.276677. We're busted...;>} -Don > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:52:10 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] Re: White Pine > > > If you click on the "discussion" link next to the word "dubious" you'll > see that someone was complaining that the meters to feet conversion for > the Boogerman Pine wasn't quite right. They asked that someone determine > which value was correct the right height (meters or feet) and correct > the other so the two values agree. If that makes sense. > -AJ > > [email protected] wrote: > > Larry, Will, > > > > I'm puzzled by the dubious comment next to the Boogerman's height. > > Will, you've got to tackle that one. > > > > Bob > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Larry" <[email protected]> > > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 3:48:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > > Subject: [ENTS] White Pine > > > > > > ENTS, Bob, Will, While searching White Pine stuff I found this link. > > I thought you guys would enjoy this. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_White_Pine > > Larry > > > > > > > > > > > > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ ' target='_new'>Sign up now. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
