Feet and Meters.

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One foot is by definition 0.3048 meters.

If you write

feet = meters * 3.28;

instead of

feet = meters / 0.3048;

Why, other than sloppiness? I mean, both operations take the same number of clock cycles, but the former is numerically wrong.

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