> > Now I know you're all going to groan, but what we need is to
> re-introduce
> the measure called *the hand*. Granted, the hand is now 4 inches or
> something,
Actually there already is such a unit. It's called the 100 mm module, and
it's darn handy! 300 mm is 3 "hands" stacked on top of one another, and 50
mm is half a "hand". Some people also like to think in 25 mm modules,
which they call an "inch", but that's just a quarter "hand". And when you
get to fine work individual millimeters work well, and they're just a
hundredth of a "hand".
So long as you're comfortable using 100 mm as the base unit for "hand", you
never use fractions or decimals.
Nat
