Joe Reid, I hate my tiny little hand calculator with keys too small for my fingers! It frequently happens to me that something is still in the little calculator when I pick it up to use it. Either that or its battery is low. My regular ten-key calculator was in my car ready for transport to work on Monday. I am much more confident with that one. In any event 1.3716 is not a whole centimeter which was my point all along. Maybe the 50-inch being 127 centimeters is just a coindidance but it seemed too good a chance to pass up to send an email to the Atlanta Constitution. Even if they print it, which I doubt, I further doubt that any Atlanta reader would catch the error on converting the 54 inches. I really hate to make mistakes like that, though norm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2001July22 14:20 Subject: [USMA:14546] Re: John Walter's explanation that "(size)change will make papermore comfortable" > Norman Qerling wrote in USMA 14529 > > > >That 50-inch web size calculates to a very logical 1.27 meters (or 127 > >centimeters or 1270 millimeters) sheet size. The old 54-inch was an > >obviously non-metric size of 1.403858 meters. > > > 54 in = 1,3716 m > > Joseph B. Reid > 17 Glebe Road West > Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071 >
