user height

[low_delta]

Here is a metric converter. And that's twelve inches to the foot.

[Poll #617683]

Comments

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Why do you want to know?

[penpusher.livejournal.com]

More importantly, why is it visible to none?

(icon choice for this response: because Bugs is a RULER here.)

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

I agree. I find that frustrating also.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Just because I thought some people might not want to share the details with everyone.

I get it! Ha ha!

[emschin.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Just wondering.

please explain

[hinterland.livejournal.com]

163 centimeter = 5.347769 feet
so far that makes sense.
now, looking at your options, does the dash indicate a range between minutes and seconds, and how is that related to tootsies?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

.35 feet equals 4.2 inches, which, added to the 5 feet makes 5 feet 4 inches.

After I posted it, I realized just inches would have been better than the feet and inches.

And why do you have a system of measurement based on how far a centipede can crawl?

[hinterland.livejournal.com]

Because, Mr Complicated, the metric system offers uncomparable convenience, easiness and simplicity. And degree measure of an angle can be expressed more precisely by using decimal degrees, or degrees, minutes, and seconds, based on the following:

1 degree = 60 minutes (60') = 3600 seconds (3600")
1 minute (1') = 60 seconds (60")

So you see, your way confuses minutes and seconds with feet and inches.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I figured that you'd figure out that I wasn't talking about minutes and seconds, because I asked you how tall you were. Now if I'd asked you how long you were, then you would have had a legitimate complaint. :-)

And you don't have to tell me how complicated the "English" system is. But I will point out that few people use anything but a decimal system for measuring - except for architecture, where they use feet and inches, and for food, where they use ounces, pounds, cups, gallons, pints, quarts, teaspoons, etc. I use decimal degrees and decimal inches.

[hinterland.livejournal.com]

haha yes i dare say there would be quite a few minutes and seconds involved in working out my length :)

'decimal inches' sounds like blending chalk and cheese.

[banana.livejournal.com]

But mathematicians measure angles in radians...

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

hmm.. I had to fudge. I am in between two of those.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Close enough!

[eideteker.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I would expect to see a bimodal distribution; one at 5' 4" for women, one at 5' 8" (?) for men. Your readership seems to be abnormally tall!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

As of this moment, there is one male of each height from 5-7 to 6-1, except that there are three guys at 5-11.