<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Markus Metz wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Are you sure?<br></blockquote><br>Markus,<br><br> Nope. I recently read that somewhere (don't recall just where) and thought<br>it strange, but accepted it.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I thought 1 US survey foot is exactly 1200/3937 m, appr. 0.3048006 m, or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the other way around 1 meter = 3.280833333 U.S. Survey Feet [0].<br></blockquote><br> That's what I always thought, too.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Rich<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>According to the all-knowing wikipedia:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; ">The United States survey foot is defined as exactly <span class="frac nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap; "><sup style="line-height: 1em; ">1200</sup>⁄<sub style="line-height: 1em; ">3937</sub></span> meter, approximately <span style="white-space: nowrap; ">0.304<span style="margin-left: 0.25em; ">8</span>00<span style="margin-left: 0.25em; ">6</span>096 m</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="white-space: nowrap; "><br></span></span></div><div>0.36 would be a 16% difference ..... need to find that reference, Rich - it just isn't right. If you have an old paper quad sheet it specifies the 0.3048 conversion.</div><div><br></div><div>Stu</div></body></html>