[LEAPSECS] Consensus building?

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Wed Feb 2 12:56:53 EST 2011


On Wed 2011-02-02T10:47:38 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ:

> the US system is metric based, with an inch being defined as 2.54cm exactly.


That is not true for a survey inch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_%28unit%29#International_foot

It's very Pythonesque -- what do you mean, Commonwealth or Mendenhall?

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