mm or cm should be used rather than use a decimal point. mm would be
preferable since all human dimensions could be in mm to avoid confusion.
Obviously this would not apply to medicine.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Abbat" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:47 PM
Subject: [USMA:43663] Re: Metric personal data was Re: 24 hour time
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 17:02:03 John M. Steele wrote:
Interesting. Has anyone ever insisted on giving metric height on either
a
US Passport application or a state driver's license? If so, how did it
go?
I wrote my height in metric (it was 1.47 m back then) when I got my first
passport, which was about 19 years ago. I don't remember how it went. I
renewed it by mail.
Pierre
