> My mind was boggled when I read about the two different
> standards for a foot.  How could someone (anyone?)not
> notice in 2 1/2 years of construction that something just
> didn't look right?  But then Frank reminded meof the Mars
> mission that crashed a lander into the surface of the
> planet.  An ounce of prevention is worth 0.4536 kg of
> cure.  We humans...ain't we a kick. chuck


Chuck

We don't know the particulars of the inch differences.
 Maybe the inch was the same, but they were divided
differently so that 4" was the same for both rulers, but
4-3/4" was different.

Be interesting to find out.

I remember reading that Napoleon started the metric system
because France had 9 different inches??  IIRC.

Ed Minch
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