Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:14:54 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
Plus the builders quite routinely ask suppliers for things like "a meter
of two (inches) by four (inches)". They don;t care that they're getting
the closest metric equivalent, to them a 2 x 4 is still a 2 x 4.
And what do they get? A normal finished 2x4 runs about 1.5x3.5
inches...
A 1x4 is 0.75x3.5
Who knows, but htey don;t complain about it. In the UK also the sizes
refer to the rough cut, before finish planing.
regards
Steve
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