[Sca-cooks] Metric conversion

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Mon Nov 11 07:29:21 PST 2002


Also sprach Marilyn Traber:
>I already know the 2.2 kilo to the pound one,

Stop me if you've heard this one before, but don't you mean 2.2
lbs/kilo? Otherwise you'd be off by what, about a factor of a little
over five?

>  but what is the cm to inch.

2.54 centimeters to an inch, as witnessed (and remembered) in the Mad
Magazine parody from my misspent youth, "2.54-centimeter-worm,
2.54-centimeter-worm, measuring the marigold, you and your
arithmetic..."

Adamantius
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