3 Feb
2005
3 Feb
'05
10:55 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:23:56AM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
Nah, depressing would be to claim that SI units are more accurate than the imperial counterparts, which is blatently untrue. (*winks* at quinophex).
I never claimed that, I said inches vs. cm :)
Given that inches have varied in size from place to place in the past and that an American survey inch is defined to be 25.400050800101600... mm vs. the standard inch which is measured as 25.4mm (they defined the standard inch using metric....) and the measurement was only standardised in 1958 (apparently) I stand by my original claim :p
If you want to be really sad you can read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inches which details all of it :)
Adam
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