On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 22:02:50 +0000, (Roger Hayter) wrote:

Disagree. That is misleading precision. Depending on the precision of
the original estimate it might even have been less misleading to say
"about 2000 miles".

.... which will mutate to "about 2000 miles (3218.688 kilometers)".

And so folk will continue to say that metric is not related to real world
measurements, and use things like AWG and alphabet drill sizes instead.

A #1 AWG drill and a L drill are roughly the same diameter, you know.


Thomas Prufer