On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:33:45 -0600, in
, Danny Deger wrote:
My understanding is an inch is EXACTLY 2.54 cm.

Yeah, well I thought that a meter was defined as EXACTLY 39.37 inches
also, so I was leaving myself an out, just in case yet another previoiusly
held belief turned out to be wrong... According to
http://www.pmel.org/Handbook/HBConversion.htm, it appears that 2.54 is an
exact figure... Damn, that's a surprise...