It would be a grievous error to promote the height of a building as 541.3248 m. That is far too accurate, and in fact, such exaggeration is one of the weapons of the ifp camp to make metric look stupid compared to ifp. Just compare 1776 feet with 541.3248 m and you see, that the metric figures must be rounded! Never, ever be too accurate! And I think that it is indeed an attempt to glorify the units of Fred Flintstone. I wonder which units Libeskind uses in his Berlin studio. He can never use ifp trash when designing and building in metric countries.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2003-02-27 21:21 Subject: [USMA:24954] Building at Ground Zero 541.3248 metres high This is yet, another attempt to keep FFU's active and 'blow' to SI. It could have been promoted as 541.3248 metres (=1776 feet), if at all feet were necessary. Regards, Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
