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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by autokad on Saturday November 17, 2018 @02:20AM (#18474434)
considering your foot is 2 standard deviations from the mean foot length, that hardly proves anything
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by kiriakasis on Saturday November 17, 2018 @06:35AM (#18475065)
Well it proves a lot in my opinion. Feet are really non uniform in length by a lot.
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by autokad on Saturday November 17, 2018 @11:47AM (#18476218)
go to google and type "about definition"
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by Moru on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:39PM (#18477740)
You can't both say that meter isn't exact enough when meassuring 1/3 and also say that 25 mm wrong on a food is ok...
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by autokad on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:04PM (#18491351)
I didnt say exact, just not easily done aka intuitive. a concept probably lost on you ages ago
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