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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: ISO paper sizes
- Message-ID: <8520@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 00:10:59 GMT
- References: <1i9j4gEINN8nd@uni-erlangen.de> <1993Jan4.170125.3951@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan4.170125.3951@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
- > In article <1i9j4gEINN8nd@uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
- > >
- > >1 inch is 25.4000000 mm.
- >
- > 1 SI inch is 2.54mm _exactly_, not just to 7 decimal places.
- > But the people who don't use ISO paper sizes don't use SI inches
- > either, they use NIST inches, which differ from SI inches well before
- > the 8th decimal place. (I don't know the exact details - after all,
- > why should I know about American internal standards?)
- >
- Never knew this, but looked it up (in a British book, no less, from the
- early 60s) and indeed, an US inch is ~25.4000509 mm (and not approx.
- 2.54 mm, Alasdair uses very small inches, or did he intend a deciinch?).
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