Regulating with metrics

paul bruesch paul at bruesch.net
Tue Feb 5 14:26:42 MST 2008


square yards in an imperial acre. same as four roods.
most yards I've seen are rectangular.
anonanon

On Feb 5, 2008 3:13 PM, David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com> wrote:

> "Yeah, but if you want REALLY tight precision, go for thousandths of a
> millimeter!"
>
> Reminds me of the joiner who went with his engineer friend to the
> engineers'
> convention.  When it was finished and his friend asked what he thought, he
> said "Huh, all that talk of tolerances, of give and take so many
> thousandths!  You're LUCKY!  We've got to get it RIGHT!"
>
> Does no-one know, then, what in imperial meaurements there are 4840 of?
>
> Best regards,
>
> David.
>
>
>
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