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by adenozine 1840 days ago
I appreciate the translation, but you should annotate your post, otherwise you risk someone thinking you did it spitefully, as though cm were lesser units.

I ~think~ that's why someone downvoted you.

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> as though cm were lesser units.

To be fair, a cm _is_ less than a foot

At some point people need to stop reading malicious intent into things without evidence.
Forgive my trespass. I meant no spite or ill will.

As an American, I had to converted the number to mm and the divided it by 25.4 and again by 12. I figured I save somebody else the trouble.

(I upvoted you.)