This reminds me of an oft-used line of mine: in 'imperial' people measure their houses in feet, inches and fractions of an inch preparatory to going out to buy carpet by the yard! Duncan -----Original Message----- From: kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 25, 2001 00:54 Subject: [USMA:11812] Re: Floor covering >2001-03-25 > >Now what I want to know is what transpired after? After your friend figured >out the price quickly, did he explain to the salesman that by using metric >measures he was able to get an accurate price quickly without the confusion >of using feet/inch to square yard conversions? Did the salesman ever figure >it out? >Pat Naughtin CAMS >Geelong, Australia >
