Lockheed Martin Astronautics, which was participating in the Climate Orbiter mission, sent files of data in English units of measurement to JPL navigators who were expecting metric units.
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Both systems are derived from English units, a system which had evolved over the millennia before American independence, and which had its roots in Roman and Anglo-Saxon units.
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The code has grown in complexity over the years, as is evident from the mix of metric and English units, and ad-hoc extensions to lettering and numbering schemes.
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"Mnemonics and Qualitative Reasoning " : In many instances, specific properties are more intuitive or are easier to remember than the original properties in SI or English units.
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MOA is a convenient measure for shooters using English units, since 1 MOA subtends approximately at a distance of, which makes MOA a handy unit to use in ballistics.
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The marathon is referred to as a race ( the official marathon standard distance originally being in English units 26 miles, 385 yards ) rather than 42.195 km.
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But I agree with the cultural subtlety about 6 feet being in the high-middle range of height and for that reason the height should be kept in English units.
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A few months earlier, the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost when no one noticed that Lockheed Martin Astronautics was giving NASA navigation data in English units rather than metric.
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In a preliminary report, JPL said the spacecraft's builder, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, submitted acceleration data in English units of pounds of force instead of the metric unit called newtons.
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The 5'11 " part of the title is in the English units notation for height, meaning five feet, eleven inches, which refers to the average height of the band members.
