# Shove your litres and kilos up your arse

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 17, 2008, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shove-your-litres-and-kilos-up-your-arse/477535 "2008-12-17T09:43:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shove-your-litres-and-kilos-up-your-arse/477535/61 "2008-12-18T18:32:08Z")

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the 1:50,000 First Series were like that here, too - metric x and y but the contours were still in 50ft intervals so you had to do intervisibility calculations drawing 15.24m on your vertical scale (and I’ve ended up using that ability precisely once in my life since school geography)

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