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Subject:	Re: FS : Mars promo sets
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:20:16 GMT
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> But you still use MPH on the roads... This is a good point, and I do not see it changing in the short term. Every new car in the UK comes both mph and kph on the speedo. The cost of change (signs and accidents) would be huge. Additionally, just last week, my supermarket started selling fruit per kilo, rather than per pound. Let's get back on topic. Is lego sized metric, or imperial? Scott A

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		Re: FS : Mars promo sets
(...) You can check out Robert Munafo's research on this very subject: (URL) short, it appears that LEGO bricks are neither, but hovering at some fudge factor in-between. Most likely, they started out using imperial measurements, were adjusted (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: FS : Mars promo sets
<snip> (...) Neither, I htink I wrote a program that converts between TLS(the lego standard) and Imperial, and metric...gotta be on my comp somewhere, if anyone wants it just e-mail me at Matt@rapturesoft.hypermart.net I might stick on my website (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: FS : Mars promo sets
(...) But you still use MPH on the roads... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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