On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:57:29 GMT, Mary Pegg
wrote:
>Hatunen wrote:
>
>> As to engineering, unless something is being engineered to sell
>> in a foreign country, what does it matter?
>
>Most famously, when you're building something for NASA:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
>
>And even if you're not mixing up your units, it's *much* easier to
>get it right if everything's a nice factor of ten, rather than
>16s, 12s, 3s, 22s, etc.
Engineering of the kind done by or for NASA is unlikely to be in
fractions of an inch. It's far more likely to be in decimals of
an inch.
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