[TenTec] ft/m or m/ft?
Bill Tippett
btippett at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jul 13 19:47:24 EDT 2005
DJ0IP wrote:
>To be almost exact it is 3.05 ft. (and exactly 3.048 ft.)
Your memory is wrong Rick...but I know
how you got there because I recognized the
"3048" sequence. That is actually .3048 m/ft,
not 3.048 ft/m. As someone else stated the
actual value of ft/m is 3.281 ft, which comes
from 1/.3048. So a meter is about 10% longer
(~3.3') than a yard (3.0 ft).
73, Bill W4ZV
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