Greg Procter wrote in news:47918229.D1A71618 @ihug.co.nz:
This sounds like a job for a TI89. Boy oh boy did it make Physics class livable. It's easy to handle fractions and decimal both, and if you're working with different measurement units it will convert them for you, to whichever you specify. (Meters or feet by default.)
1:24... that's neither 1:22.5 or 1:29. I wish large scale manufacturers had actually picked 1:24 instead of the other two scales. There's so much 1:24 stuff out there, it probably makes its way on to garden railways anyway.Scale can get to be almost as big of religious argument as metric vs US customary.
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