Can you please provide a link to the wikipedia page?
Dan
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From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 2005-06-10 06:32
Subject: [USMA:33156] RE: Bright secrets
On Thursday 09 June 2005 11:27, H. Maenen wrote:
I agree that a length of 30 cm is a handy length, but I never, ever give
it
the unit name 'foot'. The metric system does not preclude the use of such
modules as the BWMA and other enemies of the metric system always
proclaim.
Many school rulers do have that length, but no-one in an older metric
country calls it 'a foot ruler'; it is simply a 30 cm ruler. We only use
the British foot in aircraft navigation, but I hope to see the day when
we
will revert to metric in that sector. Something called 'foot' is also
used
to express the length of organ pipes.
The organ foot is 328 mm, based on 343 m/s for the speed of sound (which I
just looked up in Wikipedia).
phma
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