Bengt Richter wrote: [roughly "an inch is not exactly 25.4mm"] > At least according to my dusty 37th Edition Handbook of Chemistry and Physics > (c) 1955. > Maybe things have changed since then ;-)
Wikipedia concurs with Jim, though it says the official change dates from 1958. Better throw that old book out, as it's also likely to be missing any reference to useful elements such as Lawrencium (1961), and Hassium (1984), not to mention Ununnilium, Ununumium and Ununbium (94, 94, 96 respectively) or the most recently discovered element, which the PSU tried to supp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
