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Um, Trevyn,
I hate to rain on your parade, and all, but there are ~3.28 feet in a
meter. That might throw off your calculations a bit. Well, truth be
told, it did.
The reference you gave states on page 42 that
1ft = 3.048 E-01 m
That is, there are 0.3048 m in a foot.
1/.3048 =~ 3.281
Sorry.
Jeff E
Trevyn Watson wrote:
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> Calum Tsang wrote:
> > heck, there are people who use millimeters here.
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> Oh my, I almost forgot! I should have done all those calculations in SI!
> Well, let me correct my mistake:
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> There are 3.048 feet in 1 meter.*
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| "Jeff Elliott" <jeffe@telepres.com> wrote in message news:3DEEE604.ED2690...res.com... (...) I use that a *lot*. A lot (all) of parks list their coaster heights in feet. It's very annoying. Iain (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Oh my, I almost forgot! I should have done all those calculations in SI! Well, let me correct my mistake: There are 3.048 feet in 1 meter.* Hence, 8 feet / 3.048 feet/meter = 2.625 meters. And also, 2 feet / 3.048 feet/meter = 0.6562 meters. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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