[Wikipedia-l] Metric system

Mon Oct 27 14:34:00 UTC 2003

Peter Gervai wrote:

><wiki>My tool is [[unit:inch:12.4]] long.</wiki>
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>Renders "My tool is 12.4 inch long." and "My tool is 29.88 cm long.",
>depeding on my settings. (With natural IQ, like write 23.5 km instead of
>2350000 cm, etc.)
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>Syntax was just an example, not even a suggestion.
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Two points (which have already been raised):
1. articles should be easy to write. Minimize complex markup.

2. How can a machine tell what level of accuracy is needed?
Eg:
"A cat is an animal about a foot long"
"A cat is an animal about 30cm long."
You don't want the decimals!