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Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 6 Oct 1999 03:24:16 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ...
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> Saying that one of the systems is bigger or smaller than the other is
> meaningless. A meter is bigger than a foot, but smaller than a yard. And
> _my_ foot is the same length, no matter what you measure it with. [1]
> It's just a matter of conversion factors. The manufacturers apparently • chose
> to make the new product sizes come out to integer values (sensible enough),
> and also chose to round down rather than up. (Again, sensible from their
> point of view!)
A yard is not bigger than a meter, a meter is roughly 39.39 inches, so a
little more than a yard ;-)
Mike
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