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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message
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> imperial for stuff made of wood. That's largely because for anyone else
> interested in building their own or trying to visualize, it's easier to • say
> "the playfield is 4x8' plywood" or "the monkeybar rungs are at six inch
> intervals" instead of whatever thousand millimeters. Since most of the
Right, but the issue is that robot size, gap between tables, etc... there's
NO REASON WHATSOEVER that shouldn't be in SI. None. Very dissapointing. :(
> I'll use SI for the Brickfest presentation, if only to keep things
Canadian.
It's a start, thanks for acknowledging my request.
I really hate to keep going on about this. But I'm going to continue to do
so until someone can give me a good reason why we shouldn't be using the
Nation's (and worlds) unit of choice for arbitrary dimensions with no
specific bias.
Iain
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| (...) because it is a unit of measure that MANY people feel comfortable with. I am not going to try to force you to speak Esperanto, YET it would be great if EVERYONE in the word spoke it.... it would be a happy place.... its all about comfort. and (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Well, you'll never hear dots out of me for anything in reality (ie, you'll never hear me say "the rtl19 playfield is 996 dots long") but you will hear imperial for stuff made of wood. That's largely because for anyone else interested in (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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