At 10:08 PM 3 March 2002 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Something that springs to mind immediately is that '15 minutes of arc' >is a well known (in the human factors community) size for characters....
I suspect you are giving way too much credit to the author of the RFP. My guess is that s/he held some text at arm's length and picked something that was reasonably readable and then measured it with a ruler. Why s/he did not convert it to millimeters is another question. >The US Army should certainly be using metric measures so there is >definitely something odd. However, oddities like this no longer surprise >me. They provide me with food. More evidence that every cloud has a silver lining! Jim Elwell
