POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Metric redux : Re: Metric redux Server Time
7 Sep 2024 07:21:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Metric redux  
From: m a r c
Date: 14 Oct 2008 16:01:40
Message: <48f4faa4@news.povray.org>

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>>> I know I'm 6'2" tall (to the nearest 1/16"), but I have no idea what 
>>> that is in metric. (Very roughly 1.5m, AFAIK.)
>>
>> No that would be 1.88m. Your estimation is more like 5'2", maybe you 
>> computed that a few years ago ;-)
>
> By "very roughly" I mean "it's nearer to 1.5m than it is to 6m or 1m". ;-)

1.88-1.5=0.38
That's more than 1 foot (0.30m) difference :-)

Marc


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