"Jon Berndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian wrote:
>> If we'd use SI units everywhere we wouldn't have that prolem... > Well, yes we would have. It's not a matter of whether we should use feet or > meters, but inches or feet (in the case I mentioned). In metric, that would > be: should we use centimeters (or decimeters, or millimeters) or meters? No, the SI system has a single basis to represent distance: meters. Everything else is a derivative which is declared as such expressis verbis. If you use a single number to define a distance, then there is no doubt what the unit is, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
