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qw
on March 5, 2011
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An 'athletic body' doesn't always look the same.
Actually feet, inches and pounds are imperial terms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units
Metre (cm) and gram (kg) are SI-units (International System of Units)
jacques_chester
on March 6, 2011
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You've mis-parsed my sentence. The part "in imperial terms" was meant to refer to the imperial measurements. The SI measurements were in parentheses for people who, like me, live outside of Liberia, Myanmar and the USA.
qw
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Ah, yes. Sorry :-)
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Metre (cm) and gram (kg) are SI-units (International System of Units)