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4 Sep 2024 21:23:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question about imperial units  
From: clipka
Date: 6 Nov 2009 22:28:43
Message: <4af4e96b$1@news.povray.org>
Warp schrieb:
>   In the metric system it's very common to use the superscript power
> notation for squared and cubed units of length, such as "m^2"
> (m superscript 2, damn the limitations of ascii...) for square meters
> and "m^3" for cubic meters.
> 
>   How about imperial units. Can you write "square feet" as "ft^2" or
> something like that?

imperial units are not SI units and therefore wrong anyway, so you can 
do with them whatever you like :-P

(*ducks & runs*)

(BTW, those "limitations of ASCII" work pretty neat in T'bird :-))


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