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5 Sep 2024 03:23:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question about imperial units  
From: clipka
Date: 10 Nov 2009 13:51:57
Message: <4af9b64d$1@news.povray.org>
Warp schrieb:

>> In the UK at least, I think "10 feet square" would be universally understood 
>> by everyone to mean a square shaped area with sides of length 10 feet. 
>> Doing a quick google.co.uk of "feet square" reveals this to be the case.  It 
>> might not be scientifically correct, but everyone where I come from 
>> understands it like that.
> 
>   All for the sake of saving a "by 10"...

In the IT world, that would be called "data compression" and highly 
praised :-P

(It's even lossless, actually.)


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