Topic: An inconvenient fact for all the metric haters out there
Agent 204
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posted 07 April 2005 04:09 AM
quote: Inch
An nonmetric unit of length, originally defined as the lengths of three "average size" barleycorns laid end-to-end, but now more rationally defined as 2.54 cm. An older definition no longer used was 1 meter = 39.37 inches, giving 2.54000508 cm/inch.
12 inches are called 1 foot.
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