Apparently, the artist worked it all out in metric:
"Hanson quipped that she fell in love with the metric system as working with
fractions would have been a nightmare."
Yet the reporter choses to tell us that "Hanson created a 14-foot, 6-inch paper
snowflake in a little under 54 minutes in front of a cheering crowd at the
Kanawha City Hall."
http://globegazette.com/news/local/a-snowflake-for-the-record-books/article_2ec0c7d6-4990-11e2-a34a-0019bb2963f4.html
Another article says Guinness would only consider paper snowflakes over 4 m,
but I can't find what they officially certified it as.
