Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))

DaveHatunen (hatunen@netcom.com)
Wed, 11 Oct 1995 14:39:20 GMT

In article <45fasa$3kd@shore.shore.net>, Whittet <Whittet@shore.net> wrote:

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>In case you are interested the British legal definition of 304.7997mm
>is 9/100,000mm less than the US definition of 304.8006 mm for the inch.

I think you meant 304.8006 mm for the _foot_.

But the primary US definition is 304.8 mm = 1 ft.

The secondary defintion, mainly in surveying, is 1 ft = 1200/3937 m.

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