On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<[email protected]> wrote:

snip
> Clearly the unit was designed to be convinient for metric only.

Metric is confusing only if you want it to be IMO.
>
> And it only works out at all cleanly because the inch was redefined to
> be 25.4 mm at some point in time.  It used to be slightly different
> (the US and UK versions being slightly on either side of 25.4 mm).

Would really like to know where this information comes from - -
do you have any references?

Regards

Dee
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