John's feeling expressed below is precisely why I keep hammering on the same key all the time vis-a-vis this cm vs mm business.
Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. Everything boils down to these two in the end. Again, why bother giving dimensions of rooms indeed to the cm accuracy if a simple 3 by 4, or 5 by 7 would do? Perhaps you could use halves here, like 3.5 by 4.5 or something similar, tops. Otherwise, no need indeed. In summary then, for rough estimates anything beyond the decimeter is overkilling. For more specific dimensioning cm is more than enough. For meshing or setting up components, *maybe* mm may be needed. Circumstances should dictate what is to be used, it's as simple as that. Imagine if I expressed my height as 1 790 mm! I'd be a laughing stock in the metric world. People would look at me and say, wow, that accurate, eh?... Hmm... Anywho... Marcus On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:33:50 john mercer wrote: >Hi everybody. I would like to make some comments about using millimeters verses >centimeters. I agree that each industry should use what is best for them. I think >sometimes we who really like the metric system can get hung up on some things that >really don't matter all that much. I am pointing 10 fingers at myself and nobody >else. I think we should try and keep the metric system simple. If I want to know >the size of a room I want to know how many meters it is not centimeters. We should >try and make the metric system as easy as possible for the average person whether he >or she be an American, Canadian, or Brit, sceen these are the 3 countrys that are >still in the change. I can't remember if I have said this on this site or not. I >get anoied with the anti metric people who say that people over the age of 50 can't >understand the metric system. I would like to say that the people of the U S Canada >and the U K are as smart as the people of any other nation that has gone ! metric. I am 54 years old and until I was in my 20's i knew nothing of the metric system. Thank you everybody. ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
