[time-nuts] Standards for units

David Forbes dforbes at dakotacom.net
Tue Apr 3 03:54:46 UTC 2007


>
>As long as exact means within a few parts per million:
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>1/meter/39.37 inches = 0.025400051 meters/inch ...
>


The interesting thing is that this result is off by  2.000004000 ppm. 
That's a rather precise error!

The calculator I used is here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/r.howitt/Calculator.htm

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