I know business cards in Brazil are usually larger.  They seem to be something like 9 
cm x 6 cm.  I assume they must be rounded, nice hard metric values.

Marcus

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:17:27  
 kilopascal 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).
>
>
>


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