2002-12-25 Merry Christmas to all!!
Australian architects, bricklayers, carpenters, and plumbers now happily use millimetres to measure the whole job. I have seen drawings for a house set on land that was 151 340 x 20 160 and the only reference to any measurement units was the statement in the block of information in one corner that read, "All dimensions in mm". This is a perfect example why we don't need centimetres, decimetres or any other unit but the millimetre. Without the decimal point, those numbers can be read in any unit the viewer feels comfortable in. A decimetre-ist can feel just as happy reading those numbers as 1513.4 x 201.6. It is so simple a child could grasp it. The problem with Joe Sixpack is he hasn't been shown or he closes his eyes to this simplicity. Of course, being stuck in FFU land, where such an ease in placing the decimal to get numbers one wishes to see does not exist, one would not know that this can be done. We need to stop allowing FFU-ists to confuse our thinking. That is all that is happening. Let's forget all of this silly hogwash about introducing centimetres and decimetres or what ever else. Remember the KISS principle. Sticking with one unit all the way is follwing the KISS principle 100 %. John
