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To: Doctor Stochastic
or 4593.1785 metres for the Europeans
Anguish bows to your effort to make life easier for us metric folks :)
25 posted on 11/04/2003 11:23:38 AM PST by anguish (while science catches up.... mysticism!)
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To: anguish
Well, metric does deal in round numbers.

One of my friends (formerly a shop teacher) said that metric or US units didn't matter; the diagonal of a square doesn't come out even anyway.
28 posted on 11/04/2003 11:28:11 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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