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Re: Canadian Prices (Frank Sprongl)
James Fawcett wrote:
> >Ron LaPlace
> >'96 A4Q (and enjoying the 25cm of snow we've just had)
> > (that's 1 ft. for you metricly challenged 'muricans)
> I thought it was more like 30cm to 1 ft. Am I right or wrong?
Please pardon the unneccessary precision, but back from my days
as an optics engineer, when such precision mattered:
1 m = 39.37007800 in
1 cm = 0.39370078 in
25 cm = 9.84251950 in
1 ft = 12.00000000 in
1 ft = 30.48000057 cm
"Just because we 'muricans won't teach our kids to speak three
languages cause we're too stuck on ourselves, doesn't mean
we can't do some simple arithmetic" ;-)
Glenn Lawton