Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 143.51cm isn't much better is it? It just looks less messy I guess.
What are you, a dressmaker? It's 1435mm or sometimes 1.435m. Dressmakers
use centimetres, engineers use millimetres or metres. :P
There's probably not much point in going to sub-millimetre precision for
this particular measurement either.
> Works better for my head too.
Well, it's easier for those of us who are familiar with sensible units
to visualise. It makes the maths involved a lot simpler too... which is
why the metric system came about in the first place.
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