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Re:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a seri... by RL_Quine on Saturday January 05, 2019 @05:15PM (#18834621)
Yes. Only a few things proliferate in inches, but products that are defined in inches always do. Subway sandwiches are a mixture, in the netherlands they are 30cm (an extra 30mm), in other metric countries they remain as a footlong.
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Re:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a seri... by stan_rogers on Saturday January 05, 2019 @06:46PM (#18835181)
30cm leaves you 4.8mm short of a foot. This is how we lose spacecraft.
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