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errors due to metric-inch conversion?
Posted by:
Ingo
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Date: November 10, 2003 08:58AM
For german boats the original measurements have to be metric. So if any author states numbers in inches - then these numbers had been calculated metric ones. Such conversion inevitably are troubled by rounding errors - and so are hard to compare. If you repeat that calculation the error might grow (and a metric number computed from inches might become different from the original metric one ...).
My advice would be: forget any numbers quotet in inches (that can't be exact!) and stick to numbers from primary sources.
My advice would be: forget any numbers quotet in inches (that can't be exact!) and stick to numbers from primary sources.
