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Why are there multiples of the same Length Units
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Why are there multiples of the same Length Units
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04-13-2019, 01:12 PM
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RE: Why are there multiples of the same Length Units
You have miUS, ftUS and inUS because you have something called a "us survey foot" and by extension a "us survey mile".
Primarily, this is of importance (and quite extremely so) when working with geodesic conversions between different coordinate systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#U.S._survey_mile "in" vs "inch" is due to the CAS already having a definition that was incompatible with the HP convention... unfortunate, but was made as clean as possible. TW Although I work for HP, the views and opinions I post here are my own. |
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Why are there multiples of the same Length Units - KevinMurphy - 04-13-2019, 12:05 PM
RE: Why are there multiples of the same Length Units - Tim Wessman - 04-13-2019 01:12 PM
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