2002-10-26 >From the BBC article:
Earlier, FBI agents conducted a major search at a house in Tacoma, Washington state, 3,200 kilometres (2,000 miles) from the capital. The distance from Washington DC to Tacoma is not exactly 2000 miles. That is just a rounded number to make it easier to say and remember. The conversion to SI could just as well been 3000 km, and no loss of real accuracy would have result. John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-10-24 17:49 Subject: [USMA:22928] Re: SI reference on CNN On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:39:05 -0700, "Nikolay O. Malyarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >RE: Caught alleged sniper in the Washington area. > >"Muhammad earned an M-16 expert marksman badge during his service in the >Army, the highest level of expertise given by the military, defense >officials at the Pentagon said. > >That means he had to hit 36 out of 40 targets at a range of about 50 to >300 meters." >[http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/10/24/sniper.shootings/index.html] > >I originally heard this just a minute ago in a televised report. No >conversion to ifp was ever done. You might like to look at how the BBC reported the story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2356271.stm Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
