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Lew Hodgett Lew Hodgett is offline
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Default your thoughts on metric


"Morris Dovey" wrote:

The first customer was in Sweden so I figured it'd be
cool to go metric...


snip a list of US v metric price comparisons

Added up the costs I /did/ know at that point, shrugged a last time,
and picked up the phone to order everything in inches.


Would you have done differently?


I would have given the customer a choice along with the respective
prices.

It becomes his choice.

He may have some very good reasons for needing metric.

Lew