His Jedness' Height: A Reader's Email

I see what you're saying, my sweet sandcrab.

178cm = 5.839 feet. Your math makes you think 5 ft 8in. Is mighty short, yes?

But let the Super Eight Ball Math Whiz take you through some math mistakes made by silly little auto-converters. They forget that there are 12 inches in a foot, you see. This mistake is made a lot while converting cm wrongly.

The 5.839 'feet' is a decimalised value, but since it is not 10 inches to a foot, you, my sandhopper, must multiply that .839 by 12 to arrive at the remaining inches. Thus, 70 inches = 5ft 10in = 5.833 feet. The inch-cm conversion factor is simply 1 inch = 2.54cm. So. Another way to put it. 178cm = 70.079 inches (6 feet =72 inches), or 5ft 10in. Or, if Jed's fucking around with you when he said about 178 and is really 179, then give him another half-an-inch.

Man. He really had y'all going there, hadn't he? From the amount of chatter about his 178cm in forums and email, you'd think those readers were talking about other inches on the dude. Aren't you more interested in Hell's "scimitar of love" instead? *insert grin*