The 2-6/25 is pretty interesting. Strict conversion of the 57 mm gives 2.2441
so it would have been a negligible error to round to 2.25 (2-1/4, using their
notation). The inches are only for English-speaking Americans, and the
centimeters for Spanish speaking. :)
Why is 57 mm inconvenient?
Yes I saw no reason why 60 mm would not have worked for the spacing. Neither
dimension is convenient. Of course i9t could have been some Engineer just
being way too precise in the layout of the design of the item. We do tend to
get that way. I have Engineers that show the slope of a roadway
Or, the engineer started at 2-1/4
His boss said, Hey dummy, we're metric and it became 57 mm.
It came to marketand Marketing got involved; it became 2-6/25, 5.7 cm.
From: Ressel, Howard R (DOT) howard.res...@dot.ny.gov
To: John M. Steele
And of course they had to use those stupid fractions rather than show the
inches decimally.
Carleton
- Original Message -
From: John M. Steele jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net
To: USMA usma@colostate.edu
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 10:47:41 AM
Subject: [USMA:53549] Re: Interesting
You want them to show the insane fractions versus a nice whole number of
millimeters. That's exactly what USC is like.
On Feb 10, 2014 12:21 PM, carlet...@comcast.net wrote:
And of course they had to use those stupid fractions rather than show the
inches decimally.
Carleton
