Jo asked, and now I have the answer: my gear featured 8.12m (26' 7.7") of zippers.
Item Length: metric imperial decimal percent of total Total 8.12m 26' 7.7" 1.00*** Fleece Vest 1.00m 3' 4.2" 0.13* Front 68.00cm 2' 2.8" 0.08* 2x Pockets 34.00cm 1' 1.4" 0.04* Sleeping Bag Liner Pouch 17.00cm 6.7" 0.02 Sleeping Bag 1.00m 5' 7.3" 0.21** REI eVent Rain Shell 1.00m 3' 3.6" 0.12* 2x Side 17.50cm 6.9" 0.02 Front 67.00cm 2' 2.4" 0.08* Sternum 16.00cm 6.3" 0.02 Lens Pouch (Tamrac) 23.00cm 9.1" 0.03 Sierra Designs Light Year 1 Tent 2.00m 7' 9.7" 0.29** Rain Fly 94.00cm 3' 1.0" 0.12* Door 1.00m 4' 8.7" 0.18* REI Sahara Pants 36.50cm 1' 2.4" 0.04* Fly 15.00cm 5.9" 0.02 Hip Pocket, Interior 7.50cm 3.0" 0.01 Back 14.00cm 5.5" 0.02 Pack 1.24m 4' 0.8" 0.15* Side Pocket 23.50cm 9.3" 0.03 Floating Top Pocket 25.00cm 9.8" 0.03 Outside 25.00cm 9.8" 0.03 J-Zip 56.50cm 1' 10.2" 0.07* Hip Mesh Pocket 19.00cm 7.5" 0.02
(The above is the output of a modification of the mass-computation script I threw together before leaving — feel free to play with zippers.py. If there's interest — mine or others' — I may even make it into a web page.)
(P.S. From the Wikipedia article on Inch, consulted for the ever-necessary 2.54: "Effective July 1, 1959, the United States and countries of the British Commonwealth defined the length of the international yard to be exactly 0.9144 meters.[1] Consequently, the international inch is defined to be equal to exactly 25.4 millimeters. This creates a slight difference between the international units and surveyor's units which are described in the article on the foot." Just in case it was too simple.)
Tab characters in python? Ugh!
ReplyDeleteSays who? :o)
ReplyDeleteWe all know I abhor magic numbers, and in my world four (or three?) spaces is just asking for trouble, where a tab stands for itself.