Dear John, I think you need the final decimal figures because, in its way, a credit card is a precision instrument. It needs this precision so that it will fit into your banks 'hole-in-the-wall machine' and being oversize � even slightly � would render the card useless.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia on 2002-07-18 08.17, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2002-07-17 > > If I went into the banking card/ID card business today and made my cars to > exactly 86.00 mm x 54.00 mm, would anyone really notice the difference. If > not, then why does it have to be stated as 85.60 mm x 53.98 mm? Why not > state in metric as 86 x 54 and make it that way? > > I really wonder if manufacturers in metric countries would make the cards to > those numbers or just make them to nice, rounded numbers instead. > > John > > >> >> Today, its actually a plastic identification card in ISO 7810 ID-1 >> format (the inch-based US banking card standard format 85.60 x 53.98 mm). > >
