Dear Terry, Thanks for this information. I have interspersed some remarks.
on 2002-12-12 02.16, Terry Simpson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pat Naughtin wrote: >> My guess is that the units are tenths of millimetres >> (decimillimetres ?) > > There is no such thing as a 'decimillimetre'. You cannot combine > prefixes. You would need to say 0.1 millimetre or 100 micrometre. > It's interesting that the shoe designer avoided this issue by not using units at all. What would you recommend the designer to put on the drawing � would you say "All dimensions in tenths of millimetres"? > >> a shoe could reasonably be 280 millimetres long. > This was the size they chose to show in the pamphlet. > > Yes it could be if it were one of the larger in the range. > > Immediately available anthropometric data reports 5th percentile Sri > Lanka female feet as 210 mm and 95th percentile Swedish feet as 290 mm. > USA and UK feet come within that range. > > A French study put 5th percentile female shoe length at 186 mm and 95th > percentile shoe length at 302 mm. These numbers look odd. Are these data suggesting that French women can have: 1 Smaller feet than Sri Lankan women? 2 Larger feet than Swedish men? Could you direct me to the source for this anthropometric data, please. Thank you, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia > > -- > Terry Simpson > Human Factors Consultant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.connected-systems.com > Phone: +44 7850 511794 > >
