Re: have a pint

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 12:53:03AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> (c) units.lib should get some editorial attention. Does anyone know
> what "british" is supposed to be there for?

It looks like it's a common definition of the US "survey foot".

https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot has some background on the
unit.  It's been deemed obsolete since January 1, 2022.  I'm not sure
why units.lib calls the ratio "british" though.

TLDR: the "(US) survey foot" is 1200/3937 SI meters, and the "(international) foot" is
0.3048 SI meters, a ratio of about 1.000002000004000:1 or 1:0.999998.