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100.35.58.135B wrote: Did the math on the S2022a Compaq computer windows 7 home premium calculator. Answer is: 176.6998828 inches.

It's so weird how Americans do the metric system.

Well, we go to Maine, United States of America every June, and I'm 16, but I don't know how the American word for millimeters. What is it? A millimeter in the UK is the same as a millimeter in the US. As Sophiedp pointed out, it is not different names for the same thing. It is an entirely different metric system. Although, if I recall correctly, both systems have something called a "ton"; which is different between the two. I find it interesting you got so many decimal places in your results. 1 in. = 2.54 cm exactly; at least in the new definition. Yeap, the US customary units are now defined by the metric system.

Regardless, did you read the rest of my comment or did you just stop after the first sentence? The point of my post was not to debate whether we should be using inches or centimeters (conversion is easy to do). The point was that using absolute units in these comparisons is a bit pointless because CSS does not use absolute units.