Re: Different Formats for Different Countries -- Variable Density

Philip Homburg spake thus:

> In article <454688ce$0$13828$822641b3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> David Nebenzahl  <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>>>Even carpenters and cabinetmakers, who one would imagine would have
more 
>>>>op****tunities to divide a length into equal parts which might 
>>>>conceivably be easier with metric measures, happily, easily and 
>>>>accurately use feet, inches and fractions of inches. Also not likely
to 
>>>>change in the forseeable future.
>>>
>>>And I guess they also buy their wood in inches?
>>
>>Yep. 2x4s (nominally 2 x 4", actually 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" due to planing), 
>>and almost everything flat comes in 4x8' sheets.
> 
> So, they do have to constantly convert between inches and feet. 
> That is why metric was invented.

You sound as if carpenters and cabinetmakers have subnormal intelligence 
and can't handle these sorts of simple calculations. Not true. They've 
managed to deal with this problem for centuries with little difficulty. 
Yours is a solution in search of a problem.


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