Too bad. - schip

Well, you can always use pounds and inches. Formula: BMI = 703 * W / L / L, where W is your weight in pounds, and L is your length in inches. For example, for me W = 220, L = 72.4 so my BMI = 703 * 220 / 72.4 / 72.4 = 29.5 -- I guess I'm obese or getting there. -- If I'd used metric units the formula would have been BMIm = Wm / Lm / Lm, with Wm = 101, Lm = 1.84, so my BMIm = 101 / 1.84 / 1.84 = 29.8 -- Difference is due to roundoff in pound/kg and in/m conversion.

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Tuesday, May 08 2007 @ 02:53 AM PDT

Too bad. - macdad614

Divide POUNDS by 2.2 to get KG (or multiply by 0.453.6 if division is a problem for you);

multiply INCHES by 2.54 to convert to CM.

Is THAT too difficult?

Now, you have to cut a board (eg, a 2-by-4 pine stud) into 5 equal lengths. It is 8 ft. long What is the length of each piece if the saw blade width is neglible? Your typical measuring tape is graduated in eighths, sixteenths and thirty-secondths of an inch. Give the answer in inches, eighths, sixteenths and thirty-secondths.

Suppose the stud is in Europe where its length is 244 cm. What will be the length of each of the five pieces there?

Which is easier, feet-to-inch or decimal/metric?

(Carpenters hated it when a new king came into power and the foot changed length!)

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Tuesday, May 08 2007 @ 08:29 AM PDT

Too bad. - sekn

Thanks everyone.
Now I'm working to add pound-inch unit.

Here is a beta version,
http://homepage.mac.com/nsekine/message/CalcBMI.zip
you can choose units through preference panel.
I'm not familier to inch pounds unit so I'm not sure this app works well or not.
If you have any sugestion, please tell me again.

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Tuesday, May 08 2007 @ 10:01 AM PDT

Americans. Don't you just... - fundraised

Guess what? Most of the rest of the World doesn't live in America & we are use the metric system.

If you ask nicely, the author may in the next version cater for Pounds, Feet inches, yards, metres, chains, rods, poles, hands and even Stone, some of which you will recognise and some you won't.

Joking aside, would Americans PLEASE remember they are in the minority as far as the rest of the World is concerned.

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Saturday, May 12 2007 @ 11:53 AM PDT