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My own guess is that those signs were
created by people with an anti-metrication mindset, just to make it look silly
(or people who are simply stupid). And, of course, they're on the web site of an
anti-metrication group for exactly that reason.
Those with a truly pro-metrication (or
neutral) mindset don't show conversions of imperial unit approximations to a
high degree of precision (unless, again, they're stupid). Of course, in the
headroom case, it would be necessary to round down, not up, to avoid damage in
marginal situations.
In a non-measurement field, we see
ridiculous things like "Man wins $10,000,000.00 in lottery," as if we cared
about the cents in a number that large. The lottery prize amount is, of
course, in whole dollars and should be expressed as $10,000,000 or $10
million. So some things are the result of just plain stupidity or lack of
thought.
Bill Potts, CMS
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- [USMA:27670] need for common standards Bill Potts
- [USMA:27670] need for common standards Mighty Chimp
- [USMA:27672] Re: need for common standards Krishna Kambhampaty
- [USMA:27673] RE: need for common standards Nat Hager III
