lol, it's kind of a contradiction in terms, decimal feet.  I wonder why 
the UK didn't think of that when the EU made them go decimal...

Why would Surveyors and geographers not just use m/cm/mm?

Roy E. Burrage wrote:

> Surveyors and geographers use decimal feet.  Admittedly, they are 
> probably a little crazy in their own right but why not follow their 
> convention?  How is that crazy?
>
> Just a hypothetical question.
>
> REB
>
> Justin Fielding wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry but that's crazy.  Why on earth are you showing tenths of a 
>> foot?  Either use meters, in which case you can use tenths (as meters 
>> are base10)/  If you want to use feet, then I would think that you 
>> should show inches as the smaller unit (1/12).  You can use the 
>> correct indicators also.  ' indicates feet, " indicates inches.
>>
>> Sorry I can't help you with the code, I have never touched PicBasic.  
>> It looks pretty mixed up, maybe you should learn C or ASM instead, 
>> there would certainly be more help available if you did.
>>
>> L. Barta wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm pretty new to PIC programming and I'm having some problems. I'm 
>>> using PicBasic, CodeDesigner Lite, a Warp 13
>>> programmer, and a Serial LCD display in my project which works but 
>>> not like I'd like it to!
>>> Here is my code:
>>>
>>> 'Ultrasonic Range Finder
>>>
>>> Symbol TRISB = 134
>>> Symbol PortB = 6 
>>
>>
>>
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