No Glenn you right on the money. But why confuse the issue with decimetres centimetres. For more than a metre I talk in metres for less I talk in millimetres.
The reason for quoting three places was to overcome a language barrier as well as the confusion mentioned earlier. It worked and the trenches were dug in the right spot. The sewer flowed on a dark and stormy night which was the ultimate quality control back in those days
Man of many wives, Full stop or comma? I dunno the origins except that conventionally we seperate thousands with commas and wholes from the part with a full stop. eg 12,345.456 In my game that's still not the convention... the dot has to be in the centre of the numbers. not down on the line as shown in the example.
Froggy. You're right.. a rose by any other name still jabs you with its thorns. The tropical system of length (banana skins) could be used just as accurately as long as everybody was working off the same standard length of a banana skin.
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Math is not an exact science, it is very much a convenience for explaining a numerical phenomenon.
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I'm still trying to get my head around this one. There's a fillisofficle dilemma hidden in there somewhere I'm sure.
For the buffs, the current metre standard is how far you travel in a vacuum, at the speed of light in 1/299 792 458 seconds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#T..._of_definition
And lastly, Smudger...not fuedin, not even fussin, just having a good ol' yarn over an ale or too. Well at least I am.