Excellent, Joe, indeed I'm more inclined to accept that the real reason for the cm to perhaps fail to take hold in some environments is the possibility that with some this may tempt them to do conversions to the inch all the time. This makes a lot of sense!
Marcus On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:57:49 Carleton MacDonald wrote: >Joseph Reid wrote: > > >My take on the situation is that the centimetre is so close to the inch >that people brought up on inch/pound have a tendency to convert >centimetre-measurements into inches, whereas millimetre-measurements >are so different from inch-measurements that they do not try to make a >mental conversion back into inches. >I agree with how well mm has worked in Australia, and with the above comment >too. I'm in favor of mm myself. My only concern is that it might imply a >level of precision that isn't there, especially for body measurements. For >engineering and construction, of course, that level of precision in many >cases IS there. Teach people that 10 mm = 1 cm though, and be sure to NEVER >do conversions, and it might not be that much of a problem for things like >clothing sizes and body height. >cm > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
