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

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