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Re:The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ millisec... by contravariant on Saturday December 09, 2017 @10:45PM (#15889747)
It's even closer if you use a 'metric foot' of exactly 30 cm. Then you're only off by 0.1%.
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Re:The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ millisec... by monochromatic on Saturday December 09, 2017 @11:33PM (#15889934)
> metric foot

Why is that a thing?

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Re:The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ millisec... by contravariant on Sunday December 10, 2017 @07:57PM (#15894460)
Not sure, but most of those 'metricised' units are leftovers from Napoleon's push to make everything metric.
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Re:The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ millisec... by sixothree on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:12AM (#15890053)
Maybe because 30cm is very close to 12 inches.
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