It just occured to me, had the inch been chosen to be 25.6 mm instead of 25.4 mm, then all commonly used binary inch fractions would have been multiples of 0.1 mm, something that no doubt would have significantly simplified metrication in many industries.
1/2 in = 12.8 mm, 1/4 in = 6.4 mm, 1/8 in = 3.2 mm, 1/16 in = 1.6 mm, etc. Just a thought, unfortunately two centuries too late ... :( Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
