"Bob Mannix" wrote in message
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"Nick Finnigan" wrote in message
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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.

That's what I thought, but it lead to confusion.

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

But B and Q customers and staff aren't brought up on sdbus,
they expect 1m 80cm etc., like they were taught in school