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On Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 3:53:17 PM UTC-5, Doug Miller wrote:
In article , "dadiOH" wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Then remeasure. You will find that:
- your block is 152mm long.


- you want a 6mm border at each end.


No he doesn't, he wants 1/4" and 6mm doesn't equal that. Close but no
cigar, so much for metric unless you can measure 6.35mm on that tape

Do you *really* think that 0.35 millimeters (less than 14 thousandths of an
inch) is going to be noticeable? Or are you just trying to be argumentative?
Had enough of that from SWMBO this past week, don't need it from you too.



This is an old, old, old theread. But could not resist.

There are two types of countries in the world. The ones that use the metric systems, and the ones that have walked on the moon. You do the math.