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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
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- Subject: Re: ISO paper sizes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.113209.16221@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 11:32:09 GMT
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- Perhaps the reason for the confusion might be that the article on HyTime
- which I saw (and which I've completely failed to find again) used "NIST
- inch" to distinguish it from the traditional US inch. This would have been
- very obscure to non-US readers, but that is not unusual. It would fit with
- NIST having standardised on the SI-derived inch, and with HyTime not having
- any unit representing 1/39.37 m. Just a guess.
-