Measure of Compromise

Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Or is it really that easy? That was the problem facing the United States and Great Britain in 1959. Couldn’t agree on how much easiness is in a life. Americans argued for an inch that measured 2.540005 centimeters. On the other side of the Atlantic, the inch came in at only 2.53998 centimeters. So the two countries compromised on the 2.54-centimeter inch. Fortunately, they already agreed on centimeters.