Joe Reid wrote: >NIST HB 55 is not what I mean when I refer to the Metric Bible. I >use that term to refer to "The International System of Units" >published by the Bureau international des poids et mesures, Pavillon >de Breteuil, F-92312 S�vres Cedex, France. I consider NIST HB 44 as >authorative only within the U.S.A. There is still considerable use >of miles, yards, feet, and inches in that country.
Of course, the use of yards seems to be more or less confined to golf and football -- neither of which interests me. <g> I just had a new fence installed. Its 8 segments are all 8 feet long and the job was, as is usual, priced by the linear foot. I avoided boring anyone with a dissertation on metric, being glad to have them honor a year-old quote of $14 per linear foot (of which I paid half and my neighbor paid half). Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
