On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:19:00 CarletonM wrote: >... In reality, of course, nine times the square foot price is a fair bit >more than the old square yard price was. Hard to play those games with metric. > >Carleton > Actually, not entirely true, Carleton. Simple, quote prices by the square decimeter then. As a matter of fact, square meterage of buildings, etc would be better served if quoted to that level of accuracy! By doing so, buying carpets would be a breeze.
Example: Say the area of my living room is 9.57 m2. If price is 15.5 cents per dm2, final price would simply be: 957 x .155! Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
