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Measure for Measure

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This work is seriously comprehensive, although you may occasionally need a calculator, as suggest by another reviewer. But you'll have the calculator with you anyway, because you're looking in the book to do a conversion. That's what happens to me.

There is a depth of research in this book that I love. You can dive in and discover versions of a unit that you never knew existed (e.g., no, not just the two different feet in use in the US, but all the variants on the angular measure known as the 'mil'). You need to do the work: the authors give you all the basic data.

Most of this book you (as one individual) will never need. But there are enough people who will, collectively, need all of it, to justify this book being in print almost forever. The price is right to have it on your bookshelf and it should last you a lifetime. Go for it!

Now that I have this book, I don't have to search the world over every time I want to convert some measurement. The format is easy to use and well formatted. A great volume to have for anyone who needs to convert units and can't remember all the formulas.

This is a handy book with literally thousands of conversions. Look up your unit, and convert to metric, or convert from a metric unit to your unit. The units are identified by the country of origin including ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, China, etc.

As a person working professionally in metrology (the science and practice of measurement) for over 30 years, I was both astonished and pleased to discover this book on a client's bookshelf, and immediately purchased one for myself. It is absolutely the most comprehensive measurement conversion reference I have ever seen. It even has a list of what measurements are NOT included because of insufficient verifiable data! I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a need to convert measurements, and I commend the authors for another excellent product.

Incidentally, the title initially caught my eye because I'm an occasional contributor to the bimonthly "Measure for Measure" column in ASQ's monthly magazine "Quality Progress" ([...]).

I enjoy this little book, because it has so many crazy measurements. It is a great addition to any nerd's bookshelf!

I loved this book, until I thought I lost it! My husband stole it and now has it on his office desk. I really should consider buying myself a copy. I know he says it comes in handy for reference. We deal with clients world-wide and need conversions at hand. When you go online for charts, there are too many and it can be difficult to choose which site to click. Now, it is right there on HIS desk.

I thoroughly enjoyed hunting in this book for various conversion factors, and would recommend it with just one reservation.

Unfortunately, the authors were somewhat arbitrary in deciding which units any particular one would be converted to. If I had written this book, I would have included at least the following for each unit: (1) All other units in the SAME system (i. e., if we are talking about a pre-revolutionary French unit of length, all other pre-revolutionary French units of length) and (2) the nearest-sized SI unit. Unfortunately they frequently leave out conversions between units of the same system that would be useful, and often units of the same approximate size are converted to different SI units, making comparisons difficult. (For example, one foot-size unit may be expressed as so many centimeters, while another as such a fraction of a meter.)

Both of these omissions can be circumvented by using a calculator and working with what these authors have chosen to include, but the book would be easier to use if they had done what I would have.

This little book has saved me a couple of times. Full of data, tables, conversions, etc.... Spend the money and get yourself a copy. You'll be amazed how often you reach for it.

I purchased this small book basically for the fun of it. It has much information but is very small print.