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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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To: Doctor Stochastic
... metric or US units didn't matter; the diagonal of a square doesn't come out even anyway.

Try it in base-12.

Hulkster

30 posted on 11/04/2003 11:46:43 AM PST by IncredibleHulk
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Even or whole? a square 3X4 has a diagonal of 5 which is odd and whole; a square of 2X3 has a diagonal of 3.60555 which is neither even nor whole.
37 posted on 11/04/2003 12:54:10 PM PST by Old Professer
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