On Tuesday 2003 November 11 22:35, Bill Potts wrote: > Chris Keenan wrote: > >My partner recently received a plants catalogue. She said "what's > >900 mm?". I said it's 30 cm, or about a foot. Her reply (and this is > >someone who was >anti-metric before she met me!) was "why > >don't they SAY 30 cm?" > > Do you want to run that one by us again, Chris? 900 mm = 30 cm? > > Typos are not our friends. <g>
Early senility takes its toll, Bill :-) Quite right. The size in quetsion was 900 mm. Chris -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Assoc: www.metric.org.uk
