> Whilst reading the info pages on Groff I came upon the following

What following?  You have forgotten to add a quote.

> and take offence that countries that still use inches as a unit of
> measurement must be backwards.

Being from Austria, I can only say: No comment :-)

I would be glad if you could provide a better wording.

> Inches and miles remember got the Americans on the moon.

You might enjoy

  https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/6Page53.pdf

BTW, in 2007 NASA decided to completely switch to the metric system.


   Werner

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