"HeyBub" wrote in
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Doug Miller wrote:
In article , "dadiOH"
wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:
In article , "dadiOH"
wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Then remeasure. You will find that:
- your block is 152mm long.

- you want a 6mm border at each end.

No he doesn't, he wants 1/4" and 6mm doesn't equal that. Close
but no cigar, so much for metric unless you can measure 6.35mm on
that tape

Do you *really* think that 0.35 millimeters (less than 14
thousandths of an inch) is going to be noticeable? Or are you just
trying to be argumentative?

Had enough of that from SWMBO this past week, don't need it from
you too.

Just pointing out that metric isn't the be-all and end-all

No, but it sure makes the calculations a LOT easier. Reduces the risk
of error, too, because you're always adding either integers or
decimals -- not mixed fractions.

Sure. Tell that to the group that engineered the Hubble Space
Telescope where confusion over metric/proper measurements resulting in
the launch of an almost worthless instrument.

And consider these two standards:

"Meter = 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the North Pole and the
Equator measured along the Prime Meridian." (Alternative definition:
"1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the
electromagnetic spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum.")

vs

"A pint's a pound the world around."

Now I ask you, which is more practical for your average woodworker?

Metric rules. Just like US measurements, if you grew up using one, it
takes a while to get used to the other. STill good to know both, since
otherwise how would you know why plywood comes in sheets of 244 x 122 cm
....

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Best regards
Han
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