in news:3f4b9573@news.povray.org Warp wrote:

>   Can you tell with a straight face "a mile is 63360 inches, 5280 feet
> and 1760 yards, and this system is not stupid"?
> 

t's a matter of perception. Why would you need to do these conversions? If 
you want to give a certain length or distance it depends on the size what 
kind of unit you choose to express this size in. A baseball field is 120 
yards deep, a distance to travel is expressed in miles, small dimensions 
are in mills or inches, the hight of a plane in feet. Where to put the 
moment that you change from one to another unit is a matter of instict or 
lessons learned, but not completely arbitraily. In this regard the system 
is not different to our metric system. Just that the points of change are 
a bit sharper, it's 90 cm and 1.20 meter. But we also have halve a 
kilometer and 900 meters. A moutain we measure in meters, not kilometers.

Ingo
 ... who only orders his beer in a non metric way ... per pint.

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