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		rglullis on Nov 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmer in Berlin: Culture 1 yard is 91.44 cm, so a better approximation for yards to meters would be "add 10%"

kwanbix on Nov 5, 2024 [–]

You are right, but the article says that 1 yard is 1 meter. Which is not that far for a simple calculation. For anything more serious, I would use some sort of calculator.

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