Re: [GZG] Slightly OT - Hypothetical weapon question

Richard Bell wrote:

>Meters are not useful for describing heights of people as
>the range is almost entirely contained between one and two, while
>using feet spreads the range to between four and eight.  [...]
>Eventually, these vestiges will disappear as height starts to be
>described in decimeters, or even centimeters (but I think the numbers
>of cm may be awkward, as they are smaller than inches),

Not awkward at all. For example, my height is one-seventynine... that's 
even easier to say than the Imperial equivalent five-foot-eleven :-)

Later,

Oerjan
orjan.ariander1@comhem.se

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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