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"Benjamin Medinets" <bmedinets@excite.com> wrote in message
news:Gv3LqA.2op@lugnet.com...
> > > 8 inch robot. 24 inch gap.
> > (200 mm robot. 600 mm gap.)
> call me American...but I still prefer to go by the imperial system.
Uh, so what? Canada's been Metric since the mid 60's...?
> lego-wise, 32 bricks studs is approx. equal to 10 inches, which is
> roughly means that each inch is approx. 3.2 brick studs each. So an 8
> inch length (200 mm) is 25.6 brick studs, so the average creation is
> about 25 studs square. The height is a little bit different....don't
> know the exact measurement of each brick height.
>
> Just some useless additional trivia.... :)
Yeah, exactly. If you want to get right down to it, why don't we measure
things in studs? Why use a measurement system that LEGO's inherent
dimensions aren't even based naturally on?
Iain
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| (...) <beaucoup de snipage (lots of snipage)> :) Actually, I have seen parts of the US with either solely Metric or Hybrid Imperial/Metric. (One such occasion was around Louisville, KY - Hwy I-71 - just south of Cincinnati, OH) Ben (23 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) call me American...but I still prefer to go by the imperial system. (even though metric is much easier system to use...) lego-wise, 32 bricks studs is approx. equal to 10 inches, which is roughly means that each inch is approx. 3.2 brick studs (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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