Re: Machinegun Weights

["Joni Virolainen" <joni.virolainen@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen@inav.net>

> What's so inaccurate about it?  There are exactly 28 grams per ounce;
> exactly 454 grams per pound; 2.205 pounds per kilogram.  2.54 centimeters
> per inch, 1.609344 kilometers per mile.
>
> The English system is not in any way inaccurate.  A great many very fine
> engineering projects were undertaken using only the English system of
> measurement--the Golden Gate Bridge, for instance.
>
> Now, admittedly, it has a great many faults, but inaccuracy isn't one of
> them.
>
Hey, please don't start this thing! Please! I really can't say that Imperial
system is inaccurate, only that conversion CAN be inaccurate. I saw this
comparison get out of hand in another list, which is otherwise very friendly
like this one and we already had this *another* incident :-)

No offence to anyone...

// J