"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in news:cTkxk.20380$jI5.5279
@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com:

Metric
gives me the choice of centimeters and millimeters - using anything in
between means counting millimeters on the tape, a sure source of error.

It what why all of Europe is built crooked?

If the civil engineers in Pisa had been using a Lee Valley sliding bevel
instead of one from the local Depot della Casa, things would have turned
out very differently.