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From: Virgil Arrington
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:20 PM
To: James Knott
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4
sizes
I'm old enough to remember the push back in the '70s to move to the metric
system in America. At the
At 14:20 21/02/2013 -0500, Virgil Arrington wrote:
But, I think the biggest bugaboo for Americans was that we just
couldn't get the handle of visualizing and conceiving the actual
size of things in metric units. I can visualize and
estimate a foot, a yard, even a mile. I have a harder time
Brian Barker wrote:
(And anyway, if you are estimating, a metre *is* a yard!)
Or more closely, 40 or precisely 39.37.
BTW, the official definition of a foot is now 30.48 cm.
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From: Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 19:38
Subject: Re: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4
sizes
At 14:20 21/02/2013 -0500, Virgil Arrington wrote:
But, I think the biggest bugaboo
At 14:47 21/02/2013 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Brian Barker wrote:
(And anyway, if you are estimating, a metre *is* a yard!)
Or more closely, 40 or precisely 39.37.
Sorry, but you have delusions of precision. The claim I was
commenting on was that *estimating* (not my word) a yard was easy
Brian Barker wrote:
Or more closely, 40 or precisely 39.37.
Sorry, but you have delusions of precision.
You mean you can't eyeball 39.37 cm? ;-)
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How about keeping this thread about the brochure issues and not the pros
and cons of Metric and Imperial [English] measurements.
I started it, and if people want to go on with the pros/cons, maybe you
can start a new thread in the discuss list.
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