"Nick Finnigan" wrote in message
...
When you go to B and Q W to buy some plywood cut to length,
what is the best way to give the measurement: 79 15/16 inches or
2.005m or 200.5cm or 2005mm or 2m 5mm or 2m 0.5cm... ?


2005mm.

mm are the standard domestic building units and there's no decimal point or
fraction to get wrong


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Bob Mannix
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