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B&Q redefine Feet and Inches

February 12th, 2007 No comments

B&Q SignIn an effort to help its customers with the difference between Metric and Imperial units, B&Q appears to gone a stage further and redefined the Imperial system.

Note that I am not talking about the conversion from metric to imperial, that’s always going to be approximate. Look at the last two columns.

Surely 1’11” is 23″ not 24″

Similarly, there are 36″ in 3 feet.

Every single one is wrong.

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