Re: Canadian Prices (Frank Sprongl)

[Robert Myers <rmyers@wvit.wvnet.edu>]

The 'rithmetic is OK, Glenn, but we gotta talk a bit 'bout signifcant
figgers.  :-)  Back when I usta grade stoont lab reports (otherwise known as
science fiction) these calculation results would be marked -2 each as sig.
fig. errors.  :-)

>
>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"   ;-)

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