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wxtech:
I need to measure rainfall in whole numbers resolved to 0.01 inches.  I've selected the unit of measure "Centi-inch".  It isn't in common use.  Centi = one hundredth.  Who can advise me? 
If I measure 1.65 inches of rain accumulation, I wish to express this as 165 Centi-inches.  I'm writing a PBasic program and it is much easier to deal with integers, not fractions.
I wish to abbreviate the unit Centi-inch as cin or (Cin).
Your advice and opinions please.
Centi-inch is similar to Caliber.  But 0.22 inch is .22 cal.  Caliber doesn't fill my need.

mackbig:
Where are you trying to display this centi-inch? on a web site?

Wouldn't the calc just be inches times 100?

Andrew

wxtech:

--- Quote from: mackbig on May 25, 2009, 09:08:39 AM ---Where are you trying to display this centi-inch? on a web site?

Wouldn't the calc just be inches times 100?

Andrew


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Not on a web site.  It's within hardware in a Basic Stamp microcontroller.  When I declare variables,
cin             VAR     Byte                    ' centi inches
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever seen Centi-inches used as a unit of rainfall?
Yes, it's inches times 100.

mackbig:
I have never seen it before, but it sounds like a good measure.  I guess its all in the audience.

This has nothing to do with your calcs... but its funny, in Canada pressure on weather conditions/forecasts is always given kPa, yet all weather software / reporting seems to only do does millibars for metric (or mmHg).  Then on the wind side of things, Lars does m/s instead of km/h....

Andrew

longmire:
Well - nobody ever said that METRIC was e-SI  :roll:

Mabe that's why I got a yield of 1000% on my Organic Chemistry final - the grade, unfortunatey, seems to have been operating on the Impeial System  :oops:

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