3. Reflect in as many different distance units as possible (inches, feet, miles, nautical miles, etc).
Distances are displayed on the small screen in your choice of units: inches, feet and inches, centimeters, or decimal meters.
In contrast, a customary American tape — with its easily distinguishable divisions of sixteenths, eighths, quarters, halves, inches, feet, and sixteen-inch framing intervals — is harmoniously suited to the way in which it is used.
International communication is hindered by the lack of agreement concerning first-angle versus third-angle projection and by the persistence in the United States of inches, feet, and other customary units for dimensioning.
Grains of truth: 1 A long-simmering concern is that EU is forcing Britain to get rid of its pints, acres, inches, feet and pounds, in favour of metric measurements.
"Witches and wizards are not averse to laborious calculations, which they can, after all, do magically, so they do not find it inconvenient to weigh in ounces, pounds and stones; measure in inches, feet and miles; or pay for goods in Knuts, Sickles, and Galleons," she writes.
